Made in China

By Craig Moodie

MADE IN CHINA: VOICES FROM THE NEW REVOLUTION by author and business consultant Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, presents a candid, and complex portrait of China today, capturing the nation in change as no other chronicle has. To understand this rapid economic transformation, Kuhn devoted the past ten years of his life to interviewing new Chinese entrepreneurs, private business leaders, government officials and the heads of state-owned factories, as well as the "man-in-the-street.” MADE IN CHINA features ‘insider’ information from China's first major bankruptcy—the Ah Cheng Sugar Factor in Manchuria—to the largest private company in China—the Orient Group, Kuhn introduces readers to China's richest men and much more. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575001349
• ISBN13: 9781575001340
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: TV Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An incredible story

China's transition to a market economy and associated social consequences might be one of the important stories in the next decade. Unfortunately, while this story is important, it is not well known. In part, this must be blamed on the nature of China's market transition: much of it was done behind closed doors.This fact makes Robert Lawrence Kuhn's book all the more valuable, for him, through in-depth interviews with people...

Fascinating Feelings

Feelings more than facts fill this insightful book on China, a vital resource for anyone -- from diplomat to businessperson to student -- who wants to truly understand this most important country about which Americans, sadly, are quite ignorant. Kuhn, it seems, has been working in China with three eyes, one of which he uses to watch himself work! I really began to think that I too knew all these Chinese people whose voices...

China Revealed

Intermixing personal stories, current facts, organizing theories, and diverse opinions, Made In China reveals China as I have not seen before, even though I think I have read every serious book published about China in recent years. Why, I asked myself? I think the reason is Kuhn's personal experiences and his keen observational and analytical skills, accented by his easy and non-aggrandizing style. There are even a few...

A unique perspective

"Made in China" is neither propagandistic nor academic. Author Robert Kuhn offers a unique perspective of economic life in the new China. His probing questions of a wide variety of interviewees offers a vision of China not found elsewhere. Kuhn's experience in China is hands-on and more than a decade long. He shills neither for Beijing or Washington. China is struggling at every level to deal with the tensions that arise naturally...

Diversity in the New China

I thought I knew China -- until I read Made In China. Even though I've been to China many times I now realize that I didn't, couldn't, really understand what was going on there. Sure, I've seen the dramatic economic improvements and I've heard about the problems (human rights, etc.), but Made In China casts the Middle Kingdom into an entirely new light. No book on China is quite like it. The energy, dynamism and hope is...