China’s economy is the story of the century, but the country remains difficult for Americans to understand. These books bridge the divide.
China is a place of contradictions and nuances. Here’s but one: China is the world’s second-largest economy, as we often hear, but the average Chinese worker earns about as much during the year as someone from the Dominican Republic.
The country is hard enough to understand without book publishers trying to exploit our fear and excitement about the Middle Kingdom with bombastic titles like China’s Crash Is Coming, Why China Will Rule The Next Century, and Your Baby Is Really Chinese. (OK, that last one isn’t out — yet.)
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