Why China Will Never Rule the World : Travels in the Two Chinas

from datrappert

Parfitt, a Canadian who taught for ten years in Taiwan, traveled extensively . around Mainland China. This book is more of a travelogue than a scholarly analysis of why or why not China will ever rule the world, but writing from his personal experience and a wide reading of literature about the t...

from SamSattler

Troy Parfitt decided to find out for himself if there really is anything to all the media chatter about China's imminent world domination. Anyone that pays the least bit of attention to world economics – or goes shopping most anywhere in North America, for that matter – cannot help but get the im...

from iddrazin

Troy Parfitt lived for two years in Seoul, South Korea, ten more years in Taipei, Taiwan, and made an extensive trip through China and recorded his impressions of the country, its history, and its people. His overall conclusion is that the country is backward. It is in a terrible dilapidated cond...

from iddrazin

Troy Parfitt lived for two years in Seoul, South Korea, ten more years in Taipei, Taiwan, and made an extensive trip through China and recorded his impressions of the country, its history, and its people. His overall conclusion is that the country is backward. It is in a terrible dilapidated cond...