OLD CHINA HAND
Bryan Walsh

The Man Who Loved China:
The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlo
by Simon Winchester
Harper
$27.95 List Price
The preeminent story of our time will not be the occupation of Iraq or the war on terror, but the shift of economic, technological, and geopolitical power to the East—specifically, China. Newspaper editors have coined a name for this story—“the rise of China”—but that’s not quite right. China isn’t rising the way the United States rose from a scattering of rustic colonies to a global superpower in two centuries, or the
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