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The Empire of Lies
Guy Sorman
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Description for The Empire of Lies
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 172 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
The Western press these days is full of stories on China's arrival as a superpower, some even warning that the future may belong to her. Western political and business delegations stream into Beijing, confident in China's economy, which continues to grow rapidly. Crowning China's new status, Beijing will host the 2008 Olympic Games. But as Guy Sorman reveals in Empire of Lies China's success is, at least in part, a mirage. True, 200 million of her subjects, those fortunate enough to be working in an expanding global market, enjoy a middle-class standard of living. The remaining one billion, however, ... Read more
The Western press these days is full of stories on China's arrival as a superpower, some even warning that the future may belong to her. Western political and business delegations stream into Beijing, confident in China's economy, which continues to grow rapidly. Crowning China's new status, Beijing will host the 2008 Olympic Games. But as Guy Sorman reveals in Empire of Lies China's success is, at least in part, a mirage. True, 200 million of her subjects, those fortunate enough to be working in an expanding global market, enjoy a middle-class standard of living. The remaining one billion, however, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Encounter Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781594032639
SKU
V9781594032639
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for The Empire of Lies
Guy Sorman gives a human face to brutal oppression in today's China. He introduces us to the daily suffering of many individual human lives: students thrown into exile for signing their names to political leaflets, pregnant women beaten for being pregnant without the authorization of the state, peasant families enduring the long, slow sufferings of AIDS brought to them by ... Read more