Author: Harney, Alexandra

An acclaimed Financial Times correspondent uncovers how China is able to offer amazingly low prices: by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future. Despite Western monitoring of Chinese factories, Harney exposes the widespread practice of using a dummy factory as a false window to the world, concealing a vast number of illegal factories operating completely off the books. And in a gold-rush atmosphere where everyone is clamoring to get rich and corruption is rampant, the Chinese government's underfunded regulatory mechanisms are helpless. 352 pp. March.