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What's Wrong with China
Paul Midler (Author)
9781119213710, Wiley
Hardback, published 26 January 2018
240 pages
23.4 x 16 x 2.8 cm, 0.386 kg
What’s Wrong with China is the most cogent, insightful and penetrating examination I have read on the paradoxes and self-deceptions of Modern China, written by someone who has lived in the country and dealt with it day to day for decades. This book will be hated by the commissars, because it is a triumph of analysis and good sense. I sure wish I’d read this book before heading to China—or Chinatown, for that matter. China runs on an entirely different operating system—both commercial and personal. Midler’s clear, clever analysis and illuminating, often hilarious tales foster not only understanding but respect. From the Back Cover What’s Wrong with China is the widely anticipated follow-up to Paul Midler’s Poorly Made in China, an exposé of China manufacturing practices. Applying a wider lens in this account, he reveals many of the deep problems affecting Chinese society as a whole. Once again, Midler delivers the goods by rejecting commonly held notions, breaking down old myths, and providing fresh explanations of lesser-understood cultural phenomena.
—PAUL THEROUX
—MARY ROACH
Chapter 1 The Pirate Ship 1 Chapter 2 A Mania for Money 10 Chapter 3 Blush of Shame 16 Chapter 4 Beating the System 19 Chapter 5 Intermediaries 26 Chapter 6 Dulled Senses 35 Chapter 7 Emotional Negotiators 42 Chapter 8 Oliver Wendell Holmes 55 Chapter 9 Chemicals, Guns, and Gimcracks 67 Chapter 10 Sinocentric Thinking 76 Chapter 11 “That’s My Hand” 86 Chapter 12 Lack of Conscience 93 Chapter 13 Tacit Collusion 99 Chapter 14 Networked Behaviors 108 Chapter 15 Partner on the Deal 121 Chapter 16 Self-Regulating Empire 125 Chapter 17 Corps de Ballet 134 Chapter 18 Informal Paradox 139 Chapter 19 Brown Numbers 148 Chapter 20 Reform, Reform, Reform 152 Chapter 21 The Dynastic Cycle 159 Chapter 22 Nibble, Nibble 166 Chapter 23 The Social Order 174 Chapter 24 Cat’s Paws and Telegraphed Punches 179 Chapter 25 The Great Absorber 186 Chapter 26 Kleptoparasitism 192 Chapter 27 Cleaning the Slate 196 Chapter 28 Massacred in Business 199 Chapter 29 The China Watchers 203 Chapter 30 Isolationist Past 212 Chapter 31 The Benefit of the Doubt 219
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
