The Elephant and the Dragon

In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built motorways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo. Yet exotic India is as near as the voice answering the telephone from a call-centre. Communist China is as close as the nearest department store, its shelves full of goods made in Chinese factories.Not since the United States rose to prominence a century ago have we seen such tectonic shifts in global power; but India and China are vastly different nations, with opposing economic and political strategies -strategies we must understand in order to survive in the new global economy. "The Elephant and the Dragon" tells how these two Asian nations, each with more than a billion people, have spurred a new "gold rush" and what this will mean for the rest of the world.

ISBN 0393062368   Pages 384 ISBN13 9780393062366 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher WW Norton & Co   Weight (grammes) 546 Imprint WW Norton & Co   Published in New York Format Hardback   Height (mm) 240 Publication date 31 Jul 2007   Width (mm) 163 Library of Congress HC435.3   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY 330.95   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9781605141831

		Introduction : tectonic economics		9
Ch. 1		Where Mao meets the middle class		15
Ch. 2		From the spinning wheel to the fiber-optic wire		38
Ch. 3		Made by America in China		58
Ch. 4		The Internet's spice route		76
Ch. 5		The disassembly line		97
Ch. 6		India's cultural revolution		117
Ch. 7		Revolution by dinner party		138
Ch. 8		Geopolitics mixed with oil and water		159
Ch. 9		A catalyst for competitiveness		188

"In The Elephant and the Dragon, her fast-paced, readable and revealing book, Robyn Meredith traces the emergence of the two Asian behemoths and looks at the repercussions that their rise will have on the West... She has seen how business works in China and India, and in this multifaceted book... she casts a reporter's eye on their convoluted growth, their limitations and their future" - International Herald Tribune.

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