Falling Off the Edge边缘的陷落
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作者： Alex Perry著
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出版时间： 2008-9-1字数：版次： 1页数： 342印刷时间： 2008/09/01开本： 大32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780230706897包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者简介：
Alex Perry is Time's Africa Bureau Chief, based in Cape Town. From 2002 to 2006, he was South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi, and covering locations from Afghanistan to Burma. He has won several journalism awards, and his report from the battle at Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan was featured in The Best American Magazine Writing 2002.
内容简介
This is an exhilarating journey to some of the planet's remotest and most dangerous places to explore the sharp end of globalization.Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations and governments have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits. What if that's not the case? Alex Perry, award-winning foreign correspondent, travels from the South China Sea to the highlands of Afghanistan to the Sahara to see first-hand globalization at the sharp end - and it's not pretty.Whether it's Shenzen, China's boom city where sweatshops pay under-age workers less than $4 a day, or Bombay, where the gap between rich and poor means million-dollar apartments overlook million-people slums, or on the high seas with the pirates of southeast Asia who prey on the world's central trade artery, or South Africa, where Mandela's dream for a Rainbow Nation is being crushed by a new economic apartheid, Perry demonstrates, vividly and chillingly, that for every winner in our brave new world, there are hundreds of millions of losers. And be they Chinese army veterans, Indian Maoist rebels or the Somali branch of al Qaeda, they are all very, very angry."Falling Off the Edge" is an adrenaline-charged journey through the developing world, which reveals with clarity that globalization starts wars. Far from living in a time of peace and prosperity, Perry suggests, the boom is about to go bang.
目录
Prologue
PART Ⅰ INCOMING
1 Boom, then Bang
2 Speed Bumps in Shenzhen
3 Waking Up in Bombay
PART Ⅱ FIVE FIGHTS
4 Crime Wars
5 Oil and Water
6 The New Left Revolution
7 Tribes, and the Cult of the Martyr
8 Fire-starters
PART Ⅲ FOG
9 First Casualty
10 The Myth of Asia
11 Leadership
PART Ⅳ - POST MORTEM
12 IS War Good?
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
Index
