The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
April 23, 2008
The East-West Center in Washington presents a special luncheon seminar on In her groundbreaking new book, The China Price (Penguin, 2008), acclaimed Financial Times correspondent Alex Harney penetrates deep into China’s enormous ecosystem of export-oriented industry to uncover the truth about how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices to the rest of the world. What she has discovered is a world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with corruption and a lack of transparency to exact an unseen toll on human capital and the environment. Harney’s book is a landmark eyewitness exposé of how China’s factory economy competes for Western business, and how China will manage the impact of its changing industrial landscape on the global economy. |