A Year Without "Made in China" (eBook)
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-16748-9 (ISBN)
A Year Without "e;Made in China"e; 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.
SARA BONGIORNI 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.
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xiii
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER ONE
Farewell, My Concubine 5
CHAPTER TWO
Red Shoes 31
CHAPTER THREE
Rise and China 47
CHAPTER FOUR
Manufacturing Dissent 63
CHAPTER FIVE
A Modest Proposal 79
CHAPTER SIX
Mothers of Invention 95
CHAPTER SEVEN
Summer of Discontent 111
CHAPTER EIGHT
Red Tide 127
CHAPTER NINE
China Dreams 141
CHAPTER TEN
Meltdown 155
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The China Season 175
CHAPTER TWELVE
Road's End 191
Epilogue 219
About the Author 229
Index 231
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.(July) (Publishers
Weekly, August 6, 2007)
"a wry look at the ingenuity it takes to shun the planet's
fastest-growing economy." (Bloomberg News)
"The West's dependence on Chinese exports was neatly summed
up" (The Telegraph, Sunday 12th August 2007)
"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. (Financial
Times, Saturday 25th August)
"...a fascinating and entertaining look at just how much
of a challenge an average consumer faces...to avoid buying
Chinese goods." (Supply Management, Thursday 31st
January 2008)
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.6.2007 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| Schlagworte | achieve • average consumer • bongiorni • challenge • China • Chinese • consumer • Economics • economy • entertaining • Experiment • Exports • Faces • fastestgrowing • Financial • goods • Ingenuity • Internationale Ãkonomie u. internationaler Handel • International Economics & Trade • Internationale Ökonomie u. internationaler Handel • Planets • Switch • Volkswirtschaftslehre • wests • Wirtschaft • Wry • yearlong |
| ISBN-10 | 0-470-16748-3 / 0470167483 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-16748-9 / 9780470167489 |
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