The End of Cheap China, Revised and Updated
Economic and Cultural Trends That Will Disrupt the World
Published on 16. June 2014
240 pages
978-1-118-92679-6 (ISBN)
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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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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.
Content
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
