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When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind, or Destroy It By Jonathan Watts. RRP $39.99 - published by Faber and Faber.
When Jonathan Watts was a small boy growing up in England he used to fret about what would happen to the world if everyone in China jumped at the same time.
Many years on, he's again worried that actions taken by that vast nation's billion-plus people affect everyone else on this one planet of ours.
When a Billion Chinese jump joins a growing stack of weighty volumes on China. Many, like this one, are written by China-based western journalists who blend their professional eye for a good story with a huge sweep of big-picture statistics and sharp observation of what's happening on the ground.
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