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REIN MASTERFULLY CAPTURES WHERE [CONSUMERS] HAVE BEEN ANDWHERE THEY DREAM OF GOING. --FORTUNE PRAISE FOR THE END OF CHEAP CHINA Brilliantly written. --FinancialTimes Rein combines elegant writing and methodical research.Years of working in China have given him access to importantplayers. Incisive interviews with billionaires, businessexecutives, government officials, and migrant workers guide thepulse of the narrative . . . essential reading. --USA Today Engaging. Full of vivid anecdotes from Chinesebillionaires to senior party officials and even prostitutes. Forany foreigners thinking about doing business in the Middle Kingdom, The End of Cheap China is a good place to start. --Reuters Must-read. --ConsultingMagazine A lively read. --StraitsTimes An inside look. --IndustryWeek Compelling, engaging, informative. --The Cayman Islands Journal Lively, well-written book. --SouthChina Morning Post Engaging, highly readable style with real-life examplesfrom vast catalog of China research. For good measure, Rein weddedinto China's elite, marrying the granddaughter of 1980sPolitburo chairman Marshal Ye Jianying --AsiaTimes

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Author:   Shaun Rein
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:  

9781118926796

ISBN 10:   111892679
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   16 June 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Electronic book text
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Table of Contents

Prologue ix Chapter 1 Chinese Billionaires Outnumber American Ones 1 Chapter 2 Cheap Chinese Labor? Not Anymore: China'sWorkers Are Demanding Better Pay and Better Conditions-AndThey Are Earning Them 19 Chapter 3 Stability Is the Key to Happiness: How China'sGovernment Thinks and Why It Acts the Way It Does 39 Chapter 4 The Modern Chinese Woman 63 Chapter 5 Why Chinese Consider Kentucky Fried Chicken Healthful:China's Iffy Food Supply Chain Is Putting a Premium on SafeFood 85 Chapter 6 Understanding Corruption in China: What China'sUnderground Sex Trade Shows about Its Government 103 Chapter 7 China's Real Estate Sector: Boom or Bust orSomething Else? 125 Chapter 8 Chinese Neo-Colonialism in Africa and the End ofAmerican Hegemony? 147 Chapter 9 China's Educational Sector: Preventing Chinafrom Cementing Its Superpower Status 171 Chapter 10 What the End of Cheap China Means for the Rest of theWorld 189 Epilogue 203 Postscript 205 Acknowledgments 209 Index 211

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SHAUN REIN is the founder and Managing Director of theChina Market Research Group, a leading strategic marketintelligence firm that advises Fortune 500 companies, privateequity firms, and hedge funds about profiting in China. Millionsread his weekly CNBC column on business in China. He regularlyappears on Bloomberg TV, MSNBC, BBC, CNN, and NPR, and is oftenfeatured in The Wall Street Journal, the FinancialTimes, and the New York Times.

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