Elephant and the Dragon

"Meredith's systematic analysis is spirited and readable." -- Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built highways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo. Yet exotic India is as near as the voice answering an 800 number for one dollar an hour. Communist China is as close as the nearest Wal-Mart, its shelves full of goods made in Chinese factories. Not since the United States rose to prominence a century ago have we seen such tectonic shifts in global power; but India and China are vastly different nations, with opposing economic and political strategies -- strategies we must understand in order to survive in the new global economy. The Elephant and the Dragon tells how these two Asian nations, each with more than a billion people, have spurred a new "gold rush," and what this will mean for the rest of the world. Robyn Meredith is a foreign correspondent for Forbes who lives in Hong Kong and covers India and China. A former correspondent for the New York Times, she was the recipient of the World Leadership Forum's Best Journalist of the Year Award in 2003. Laural Merlington has recorded over 100 audiobooks, including The Long March by Sun Shuyun and works by Margaret Atwood and Alice Hoffman. The recipient of several AudioFile Earphones Awards, Laural teaches college in her home state of Michigan.