In the Jaws of the Dragon: America's Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Hegemony

by Eamonn Fingleton

Book Overview

In recent years, popular wisdom has held that opening American markets to Chinese goods was the best way to promote democracy in Beijing - that the Communist Party's grip would quickly weaken as increasingly affluent Chinese citizens embraced American values.That popular wisdom was wrong . As Eamonn Fingleton shows in this devastating book, instead of America changing China, China is changing America. Although this process of reverse convergence has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312362323
• ISBN13: 9780312362324
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"