China Airborne : The Test of China's Future (Paperback)

from rivkat

Short book about China's possibly burgeoning aeronautic industry, and the challenges and opportunities it faces/offers. Fallows emphasizes that there's a huge amount of divergence in conditions across China, but also that there's a great sense of possibility for improvement-something that often s...

from bezoar44

I'm not particularly interested in airplanes or air transportation, but this book is fascinating. Fallows uses all things airplane related - but especially the design and building of airplanes - as a window on China's economic development strategies and challenges. The book builds to the question...

from jasonli

In "China Airborne," Fallows skillfully uses the rise and uncertain future of the aviation industry in China as a parable for the development in China. An avid political-economic analyst and storyteller, Fallows' account is surprisingly easy to read, given the complexity of his argument that Chin...

from jasonli

In "China Airborne," Fallows skillfully uses the rise and uncertain future of the aviation industry in China as a parable for the development in China. An avid political-economic analyst and storyteller, Fallows' account is surprisingly easy to read, given the complexity of his argument that Chin...