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A Year Without


A Year Without "Made in China"

One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy
1. Aufl.

von: Sara Bongiorni

9,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 02.06.2007
ISBN/EAN: 9780470167489
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 256

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<i>A Year Without "Made in China"</i> provides you with a thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining account of how the most populous nation on Earth influences almost every aspect of our daily lives. Drawing on her years as an award-winning journalist, author Sara Bongiorni fills this book with engaging stories and anecdotes of her family's attempt to outrun China's reach–by boycotting Chinese made products–and does a remarkable job of taking a decidedly big-picture issue and breaking it down to a personal level.
<p>Foreword ix</p> <p>Acknowledgments xiii</p> <p>INTRODUCTION 1</p> <p>CHAPTER ONE</p> <p>Farewell, My Concubine 5</p> <p>CHAPTER TWO</p> <p>Red Shoes 31</p> <p>CHAPTER THREE</p> <p>Rise and China 47</p> <p>CHAPTER FOUR</p> <p>Manufacturing Dissent 63</p> <p>CHAPTER FIVE</p> <p>A Modest Proposal 79</p> <p>CHAPTER SIX</p> <p>Mothers of Invention 95</p> <p>CHAPTER SEVEN</p> <p>Summer of Discontent 111</p> <p>CHAPTER EIGHT</p> <p>Red Tide 127</p> <p>CHAPTER NINE</p> <p>China Dreams 141</p> <p>CHAPTER TEN</p> <p>Meltdown 155</p> <p>CHAPTER ELEVEN</p> <p>The China Season 175</p> <p>CHAPTER TWELVE</p> <p>Road’s End 191</p> <p>Epilogue 219</p> <p>About the Author 229</p> <p>Index 231</p>
Journalist Bongiorni, on a post-Christmas day mired deep in plastic toys and electronics equipment, makes up her mind to live for a year without buying any products made in China, a decision spurred less by notions of idealism or fair trade—though she does note troubling statistics on job loss and trade deficits—than simply "to see if it can be done." In this more personal vein, Bongiorni tells often funny, occasionally humiliating stories centering around her difficulty procuring sneakers, sunglasses, DVD players and toys for two young children and a skeptical husband. With little insight into global economics or China's manufacturing practices, readers may question the point of singling out China when cheap, sweatshop-produced products from other countries are fair game (though Bongiorni cheerfully admits the flaws in her project, she doesn't consider fixing them). Still, Bongiorni is a graceful, self-deprecating writer, and her comic adventures in self-imposed inconvenience cast an interesting sideways glance at the personal effects of globalism, even if it doesn't easily connect to the bigger picture.<i>(July)</i>  (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, August 6, 2007) <p>"a wry look at the ingenuity it takes to shun the planet's fastest-growing economy." (<i>Bloomberg News</i>)</p> <p>"The West's dependence on Chinese exports was neatly summed up"  (<i>The Telegraph</i>, Sunday 12th August 2007)</p> <p>"What the year-long experiment did achieve, was to switch on Bongiorni as a consumer and make her alive to the complexities and shifting power of the international economy. (<i>Financial Times</i>, Saturday 25th August)</p> <p>"...a fascinating and entertaining look at just how much of a challenge an average consumer faces...to avoid buying Chinese goods."  (<i>Supply Management</i>, Thursday 31st January 2008)</p>
<p><b>SARA BONGIORNI</b> is a writer and journalist who has worked at news-papers and business publications in California and Louisiana. Her "beat" has included international trade and its impact on local economies. Bongiorni has won local, state, and national awards for her articles, including a 2002 Best in Business award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for her part in a series on the impact of out-migration on the Louisiana economy. Bongiorni graduated from the University of California, San Diego, and holds a master's degree in journalism from Indiana University.
<p>Praise for <b>A Year Without "Made in China"</b> <p><i>"A wry look at the ingenuity it takes to shun the planet's fastest-growing economy."</i></br> — Bloomberg News <p><b>"A wry look at the ingenuity it takes to shun the planet's fastest-growing economy."</b> —Bloomberg News <p><b>"The West's dependence on Chinese exports neatly summed up."</b>—<i>The Daily Telegraph</i> <p><b>"What the year-long experiment did achieve was to switch on Bongiorni as a consumer and make her alive to the complexities and shifting power of the international economy."</b> —<i>Financial Times</i> <p><b>"A fascinating and entertaining look at just how much of??a challenge an average consumer faces . . . to avoid buying Chinese goods."</b>—<i>Supply Management</i> <p><b>"Bongiorni is a graceful, self-deprecating writer, and her comic adventures in self-imposed inconvenience cast an interesting sideways glance at the personal effects of globalism."</b>—<i>Publishers Weekly</i>

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