Wal–Mart, GE, and Microsoft have all opened major operations in India, while Shell and General Motors have invested in about 3,000 new factories on the subcontinent. Why are these titanic companies pouring funds into a country known for its slow economic growth? Because today there is a new India.

William Nobrega & Ashish Sinha, John Wiley & Sons, 8 February 2008

A Chinese woman pushes her way to the front of a hiring queue outside a factory in Shenzhen -- A Bolivian miner, without light or ventilation, crawls deep inside a deserted mine -- A group of Somali cleaners files into an investment bank in London's Canary Wharf -- Globalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago.

Paul Mason, Vintage, 7 February 2008

Presents an accessible history of China as a trading entity, an overview of China's economic development over the last 30 years, and then focuses on China as a destination for inward investment, and as an outward investor, something that has only been happening in the last few years and is historically unprecedented.

Kerry Brown, Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd, 1 February 2008