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The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage by  Alexandra Harney - First Edition, First Printing - 2008 - from Bellefair Books and Biblio.com
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"[A] familiar but engrossing tale of Dickensian industrialization....Harney's is a perceptive take on the world's workshop."

The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage

by Harney, Alexandra

First Edition, First Printing

Price: $24.00


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Book desription: New York: The Penguin Press, 2008. First Edition, bound in navy blue over light red boards with gilt lettering and lines engraved on spine; (13)+336+(2) pages including index, bibliography, and notes; double-page-spread map of China with inset map of Guangdong province; tiny push to spine bottom, corner of map page creased. White and red illustrated dust jacket, price intact, has a bit of wrinkling to top edge; jacket now protected in a clear, archival quality sleeve. Alexandra Harney, a journalist working in Asia for most of the past decade, including a period covering China and Japan for the Financial Times of London, writes with considerable insight about the gritty, corrupt reality behind the strikingly low cost of good made in China, and the resulting devastating cost to the planet, to workers elsewhere in the world, and to Chinese citizens.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16 cm x 23 cm / 6" x 9".

  • Bookseller: Bellefair Books CA (CA)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 910139
  • Format/binding: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Near Fine
  • Jacket condition: Near Fine
  • Edition: First Edition, First Printing
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 1594201579
  • ISBN 13: 9781594201578
  • Publisher: The Penguin Press
  • Place: New York
  • Date published: 2008
  • Pages: 336
  • Size: 4.75 x 9.75 x 1.5 inches
  • Weight: 0.7 pounds
  • Keywords: ECONOMICS FOREIGN TRADE EXPORT FACTORY ECONOMY PRICING PRESSURE jpg
  • Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General;

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