After "The World is Flat" hit bookshelves, another global business book may sweep the world: "China Shakes the World: the Rise of a Hungry Nation." The book by James Kynge won the 2006 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award.
Kynge, a journalist in Asia for two decades and former Beijing bureau chief for the FT, beat four other authors for the prize. One of the seven judges, Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, said, "China is changing the world and James Kynge's book captures the essence of that change."
China Shakes the World tells the story of a country's emergence from the inside out. It describes China's burgeoning appetite and it shows how the projection ofthis hunger is set to change - and is changing - the world.
Although China is already a palpable force, theimpact of the middle kingdom's re-emergence has onlyjust started to be felt. Over the next few years, its hungerfor foreign jobs, raw materials and energy will reshapeworld trade and politics. The outflow of Chinesemanufactured products, tourists, students, corporateand personal investments will be felt keenly.