China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower

China's emergence on the world stage will be one of the most momentous--and challenging--developments of the twenty first century. To help us understand this country--the world's largest with 1.4 billion people--scholars at CSIS and IIE have compiled data accumulated over years of investigation into an accessible narrative for the general reader.

Hailed as one of the most definitive books on China, China: The Balance Sheet is the fullest attempt to understand and describe the most important emerging power in the world.