Sheryl WuDunn (WuDunn, Sheryl / Wudunn, Sheryl)

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  China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

  ISBN 1857881583 (1-85788-158-3)
  Softcover, Nicholas Brealey Intl

  
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  In this powerful and intensely readable book, filled with the people and places of a vast country, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn capture and illuminate the two overwhelming - yet apparently incompatible - forces that are reshaping China today. They are China's instinctive repressiveness, and the collapse of a Communist dynasty. [via]

  More editions of China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power:

  • China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power: ISBN 0679763937 (0-679-76393-7)
    Softcover, Random House Inc
  • China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power: ISBN 0812922522 (0-8129-2252-2)
    Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
  • China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power: ISBN 1857881583 (1-85788-158-3)
    Softcover, Nicholas Brealey Intl
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  Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia
  

  by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn

  ISBN 1857882733 (1-85788-273-3)
  Hardcover, Brealey Publishing Limited, Nicholas

  
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  Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists for The New York Times and authors of China Wakes, return with an eclectic collection of reportage from Asia. Thunder from the East lacks an overarching thesis, except perhaps the claim that Asia is an incredibly important part of the world whose influence will only grow in the 21st century. (Toward the end of the book, in an amusing speculation about the year 2040, the authors wonder about "the Indian landing on Mars, the Kim's Riceburger acquisition of McDonald's, and now this basketball loss" of the Americans to the Chinese in the Olympics.) Kristof and WuDunn are a husband-and-wife team who split up their writing duties; every chapter is individually bylined, with the exception of the jointly authored final one. They refuse to offer a grand unified theory of Asia, a region, they write, that is "a bit like the weather: so diverse that it is difficult to generalize about." Instead, they paint chapter-length portraits of various Asian subjects, and often in the first person. In an opening set of remarks, Kristof describes how he and WuDunn have lived in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Japan: "Our experience across Asia was in the form that the Chinese call qingting dian shui, meaning the way a dragonfly skits superficially about the surface of a pond."

  There's nothing superficial about their reporting--it probes deep and isn't afraid to draw large lessons. Kristof, for example, discusses how China and India's historic insularity have kept those two countries from achieving all they might--cases of "imperial understretch," he calls them, in a nice phrase--and suggests the United States may be entering a similar period. Thunder from the East sparkles with this kind of analysis: provocative, debatable, and worth thinking over. Its riches aren't apparent from a cursory examination, but only through a page-by-page reading. Those who make the effort will be glad they took the time. --John J. Miller [via]

  More editions of Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia:

  • Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia: ISBN 0375703012 (0-375-70301-2)
    Softcover, Vintage Books
  • Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia: ISBN 0375403256 (0-375-40325-6)
    Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
  • Thunder from the East : Portrait of a Rising Asia: ISBN 1857882733 (1-85788-273-3)
    Hardcover, Brealey Publishing Limited, Nicholas