"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's
words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening
reverberate around the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure
of the tremors made as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy,
and food -- and its export of goods, workers, and investments -- drastically
reshapes world trade and politics. Through dramatic stories of the people who
are driving China's transformation -- entrepreneurs and visionaries, factory
workers and store clerks -- Kynge describes the breakneck rise of China, the
extraordinary problems the country now faces, and the consequences of both.