How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What will happen when China is able to manufacture nearly everything that Europe and the United States can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into the lives?

These are ground-shaking questions, and China, Inc. provides answers in a richly engaging work of penetrating, up-to-the-minute reportage and brilliant analysis that will forever change how readers think about America's future.