East Rises, West Sets

Twenty Years Inside China's Supply Chain

The reports can read all green with not one carton moved. It took him twenty years to see the wall between those two things. A part-chaser at a Japanese notebook plant; a purchasing manager at a catamaran joint venture; and a man crouched in a sawdust-floored crate warehouse in Cape Town, counting a boat's 790 parts down to two decimal places. Told by the one who wrote the weekly reports, sat in the meetings, and was replaced.

The English edition is complete: all fourteen chapters, Volume One and Volume Two.

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