Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China.
New York: Vintage, December 2008.
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James Fallows' blog and article archive at The Atlantic.
The book is a collection of essays previously published in The Atlantic. Most of the essays are available online. Collecting them in book form results in an introduction/survey of contemporary China. The essays are:
- Postcards From Tomorrow Square, December 2006
- Mr. Zhang Builds His Dream Town, March 2007
- Win in China!, April 2007
- China Makes, The World Takes, July/August 2007
- Macau’s Big Gamble, September 2007
- The View from There, November 2007
- The $1.4 Trillion Question, January/February 2008
- “The Connection Has Been Reset”, March 2008
- China’s Silver Lining, June 2008
- How the West Was Wired, October 2008
- After the Earthquake
(This essay did not appear in The Atlantic and is not on their website. It gives a brief account of the aftermath of the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake in four Sichuan villages a month or two after the event.) - Their Own Worst Enemy, November 2008
Some other publications by Fallows on China and East Asia:
- Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System, Pantheon, 1994; Vintage, 1995.
(publisher; Google Book Search; Amazon.com) - “Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money”, The Atlantic, December 2008.
- Musical Chairs, The Atlantic, March 2009.
- China's Way Forward, The Atlantic, April 2009.