Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China
Just ok. China is changing so fast that we can't read 10-year-old journalism and claim to have that much relevant knowledge. But if you didn't know about their astonishing industry (more manufacturing workers in Guangdong than all of the US by 2007) or their horrendously serious reality shows, or their super-rich (including the usual eco-friendly super-rich) then it might update you.
I was surprised that Fallows is so eminent without having even much spoken Mandarin, but he's immersed in other ways.
I was surprised that Fallows is so eminent without having even much spoken Mandarin, but he's immersed in other ways.