When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It

by Jonathan Watts

Book Overview

As a young child, Jonathan Watts believed if everyone in China jumped at the same time, the earth would be shaken off its axis, annihilating mankind. Now, more than thirty years later, as a correspondent for The Guardian in Beijing, he has discovered it is not only foolish little boys who dread a planet-shaking leap by the world's most populous nation.

When a Billion Chinese Jump is a road journey into the future of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141658076X
• ISBN13: 9781416580768
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"