Frontmatter -- Advance Praise for The China Paradox, Second Edition -- Advance Praise for The China Paradox, First … China -- Chapter 2 Early Attempts at Industrialization: The Empire and the Republic -- Chapter 3 The First Decades of the … Heart of China’s Emergence -- Chapter 10 China’s Friction with the World -- Chapter 11 What Could Disrupt or Sustain the …

1 The Chinese Birdcage -- 2 Western Triumphalism -- 3 China as the World's Factory -- 4 Housing Bubbles across the … Western Hemisphere -- 5 The Global Financial Crisis -- 6 The Economic Fallout -- 7 Unlimited Supplies of Labor -- 8 China …This book vividly describes how China’s rise in the early 2000s led to rising profits and declining labor income …