As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything

In As China Goes, So Goes the World, the Oxford historian Karl Gerth reveals why we should all care about the everyday choices made by ordinary Chinese. Taken together, these seemingly small lifestyle changes are deeper and more profound than the headline-grabbing stories on military budgets, carbon emissions, or trade disputes. Chinese consumers are quickly replacing overspent Americans as the global economic engine, but in so doing they are dramatically reconfiguring the world economy in ways that may be impossible to reverse.