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Sat 07 Jul 2010The smoking dragon
BIOGRAPHY: When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind – Or Destroy It,by Jonathan Watts, Faber and Faber, 483pp. £14.99
IN MANY OF the books written about China’s astonishing rise during the past 30 years, the country takes on the characteristics of a giant, a colossus that physically alters our world. James Kynge’s China shakes the world, while in Martin Jacques’s view it will transform and shape the globe in its image. Will Hutton’s China is a juggernaut dominating the 21st century.
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