Gordon Chang's The Coming Collapse of China is a well-written and thought-provoking examination of the flaws in China's boom economy, although the story makes little effort to be even-handed, as the title makes clear.
However, Chang has lived and worked in Shanghai for almost two decades as a lawyer, and his focus on China's economic flaws are worth reading, even though he is not a formal China expert.
The book culminates with three scenarios in which the population could rise up against their rulers a stock market collapse, a failed war against Taiwan, rage at official corruption, or a combination of all three.
Chang goes behind the scene...
