The Elephant And The Dragon

by Robyn Meredith

The Elephant and the Dragon is the essential guide to understanding how India and China are reshaping the world.This New York Times bestseller describes the tidal wave of change headed for American shores as we enter an era defined by labor unbound from geographic borders and startling shifts in how ??" and where ??" nearly everything we buy is made. Although ominous for the West, the transformation has already lifted hundreds of millions of Indians and Chinese out of abject poverty. In a compelling mix of history and on-the-ground reporting, veteran journalist Robyn Meredith cuts through the alarmist hype surrounding globalization, offshoring, and layoffs, untangling the complex web of business, politics, and culture that entwines India, China, and the West.On the streets of Bombay, barefoot children do brisk business selling pirated copies of The Harvard Business Review while lush pharmaceutical company campuses spring up like mirages in an Indian countryside still largely without electricity. In high-tech call centers, India's new yuppies adopt Westernized names and make small talk about Sunday football scores as they answer customer service calls. But the phone calls are only the beginning, as Indian universities turn out more college graduates than the United States does. They are capable of conquering the back office work of the world ??" writing legal briefs, programming computers, figuring tax returns and more ??" all at a fraction of Western wages.China has continued to wave the banner of communism while simultaneously transforming itself into a commercial juggernaut that inspires fear, and envy, in workers and CEOs worldwide. Although China has modernized its economy ??" partly by getting foreign firms to pay the tab ??" its politics are stuck in the past, with no democracy in sight. Meanwhile, the country courts environmental catastrophe, its air pollution straying to American shores. Yet the United States and China are increasingly interconnected econom

252 pages, Paperback

About the author

Author, The Elephant and the Dragon and Bloomberg Television Foreign Correspondent

Based in Hong Kong, Robyn Meredith is a correspondent for Bloomberg Television, where she interviews Asian heads of state and global CEOs. She is the author of The New York Times best seller, The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us, published by W.W. Norton.

Prior to joining Bloomberg Television, Meredith served as senior editor, Asia for Forbes where she covered economics, global finance, Asian markets and foreign policy. For Forbes, she wrote cover stories on Sony, General Motors, Kodak, Microsoft, Philips, Toyota, Ratan Tata, Li & Fung and Infosys. Meredith joined Forbes as its Detroit Bureau Chief in April 2000 to write about the auto industry. She moved to Hong Kong in 2002. One of her articles was included in the 2002 edition of the book The Best Business Stories of the Year.

Meredith is an award-winning journalist who previously wrote for The New York Times, USA Today and The American Banker newspaper, where her reporting exposed a pattern of insider deals at savings and loans that led to four congressional hearings and an overhaul of U.S. banking regulations governing initial public offerings.

Meredith received a B.A. in English Literature from Boston University in 1990.

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