When a billion Chinese jump : how China will save mankind--or destroy it / Jonathan Watts.

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Edition:1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
Published: New York : Scribner, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Useless trees : Shangri-La
  • Foolish old men : the Tibetan Plateau
  • Still waters, moving earth : Sichuan
  • Fishing with explosives : Hubei and Guangxi
  • Made in China? : Guangdong
  • Gross domestic pollution : Jiangsu and Zhejiang
  • From horizontal green to vertical gray : Chongqing
  • Shop till you drop : Shanghai
  • Why do so many people hate Henan? : Henan
  • The carbon trap : Shanxi and Shaanxi
  • Attack the clouds! Retreat from the sands! : Gansu and Ningxia
  • Flaming mountain, melting heaven : Xinjing
  • Science versus math : Tianjin, Hebei, and Liaoning
  • Fertility treatment : Shandong
  • An odd sort of dictatorship : Heilongjiang
  • Grass roots : Xanadu.