Table of Contents
Preface vii
Introduction 1
Prologue: Depressions in Progress 15
Part 1 Globalization And Communism
1 Exploitation Factories: Charles Dickens in Shenzhen 25
2 The Race to the Bottom 39
3 Chinese Nouvelle Cuisine: Marxism in a Neoliberal Sauce 51
4 Beyond the Great Wall 67
5 The Neoliberal Dream of Modernization 81
Part 2 Globalization and Capitalism
6 The World Is Flat 103
7 Financial Neoliberalism as Predator 119
8 In Union There Is Strength 133
9 From Muhammad to Confucius 145
10 The Great Wall of Renewable Energy 159
Part 3 Globalization And Democracy: A Shotgun Wedding
11 Looking at Washington and Beijing through Chinese Eyes 179
12 Late Imperial Spin: Osama bin Laden as the Modern Attila 193
13 Saboteurs of the Nation-State 203
14 Supply-Side Economics 215
15 The Full Monty 225
16 Mediacracy 235
17 The Thousand Evitas of Berlusconi 247
Part 4 Images of the Future
18 Scenes from a Marriage 265
19 The Last Frontier 279
20 Globalization and Crime 293
21 Rousseau in Chinese Characters 307
Epilogue: China Hands 323
Acknowledgments 331
Notes 335
Glossary 351
Further Reading 357
Index 363