China Inside Out: 10 Irreversible Trends Reshaping China and its Relationsh ip with the World

The Shanghai World Expo 2010 marks thirty years of Chinese economic growth and social transformation unparalleled in world history. China Inside Out: 10 Irreversible Trends Re-shaping China and its Relationship with the World is an exploration of the major social, economic, environmental and technological trends that are molding a China never before seen in world history:
* CHAPTER 1: China's Generation W(eb) - The Great Firewall of China seems monthly to become more sophisticated with growing armies of internet censors and cutting-­edge technologies that filter and block web sites, emails, and text messages that promote the free flow of ideas and expression. But how far will government censors be able to go before a cyber-­subculture of hundreds of millions of Chinese rebel en masse?
* CHAPTER 2: Keeping Up with the Zhangs - Chinese are on average becoming richer, less healthy and more anxious as they eat more, drive more, smoke more, work more with few government assurances their assets and their futures are secure;
* CHAPTER 3: Country Mouse, City Mouse - China needs its migrant workers from the countryside to build its cities, and, increasingly, to live in them, with ever­increasing stresses between the have's and the wanna­have's;
* CHAPTER 4: "Not in My Backyard!" - As more Chinese embrace the ideal if not the practice of an American­style middle class lifestyle, it is beating records as the world's largest polluter of land, water and air resources;
* CHAPTER 5: With the Appetite of a Dragon - ­China has been on a buying spree abroad as modernization leaves it with less arable land, food, crude oil and other mineral resources. Ultimately, though, it will find water more precious than oil, with dire implications for its neighbors.
* CHAPTER 6: China 24/7 - As the East Coast becomes a more expensive and congested place in which to do business domestic and foreign production and infrastructure development is moving to China's hinterlands, where 800 million Chinese literally work day and night to get rich and show it off;
* CHAPTER 7: China, At Your Services - The hallmarks of China's nascent services sector are a lack of civility, little sense of customer care and arcane bureaucracies. If only Chinese hospitals, for instance, were more like the country's wedding industry, where the customer is queen, service level quality reigns and beating out the hundreds of local competitors is a matter of pride.
* CHAPTER 8: The Global Sugar Daddy - As China becomes richer its trade practices, currency positions, stock markets, and foreign investments will matter more in the international marketplace, ­which will increasingly resist opaque Chinese business practices and inadequate quality and governance controls;
* CHAPTER 9: Hot Pot Nation - ­China's allure as the most populace country in the world has for millennia snared foreign and Chinese interests into cultivating and exploiting a source of tremendous wealth and energy. Now, population pressures lanced by the One Child Policy and a rapidly aging population with a below-­par replacement rate are becoming national and global liabilities.
* CHAPTER 10: In the Shadow of the Emperors - Chinese nationalism and militarization are increasingly filling the vacuum left by the lack of a civil society and the dearth of reflection on the country's modern history, making its neighbors near and far anxious about how aggressively it will fulfill its role as a rising superpower.
 
The author, Bill Dodson, has been traveling throughout, living and working in China since 1999. The stories of average Chinese, interviews with topical experts, and in-depth research inter-laced with the author's own experiences deliver an insider's view into the shearing forces re-shaping China, its identity and its place in a new world order as it elbows America and Europe aside. Bill has been quoted frequently in the international press on business and social issues in China, has published dozens of articles on doing business in China, and is a frequent speaker at conferences on China economic and business topics.

Bill Dodson has been writing and advising on business in China since 2002. He has been quoted on China-related topics in Newsweek, The Economist, Shanghai Business Review, China International Business, China Economic Quarterly, National Public Radio, and others. He is a columnist for the China Economic Review and Eurobiz on economic and foreign investment issues in China. He is a Partner and Director of Strategic Analysis at TrendsAsia Ltd., in Shanghai. You can follow his blogs and podcasts at www.thisischinablog.com.

Bill Dodson has been writing and advising on business in China since 2002. He has been quoted on China-related topics in <i>Newsweek</i>, <i>The Economist</i>, <i>Shanghai Business Review</i>, <i>China International Business</i>, <i>China Economic Quarterly</i>, <i>National Public Radio</i>, and others. He is a columnist for the <i>China Economic Review</i> and <i>Eurobiz</i> on economic and foreign investment issues in China. He is a Partner and Director of Strategic Analysis at TrendsAsia Ltd., in Shanghai. You can follow his blogs and podcasts at <a href="http://www.thisischinablog.com/">www.thisischinablog.com</a>.

Bill Dodson has been writing and advising on business in China since 2002. He has been quoted on China-related topics in Newsweek, The Economist, Shanghai Business Review, China International Business, China Economic Quarterly, National Public Radio, and others. He is a columnist for the China Economic Review and Eurobiz on economic and foreign investment issues in China. He is a Partner and Director of Strategic Analysis at TrendsAsia Ltd., in Shanghai. You can follow his blogs and podcasts at www.thisischinablog.com.