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Bergsten, C. Fred, Bates Gill, Nicholas R. Lardy, and Derek J. Mitchell. China: The Balance Sheet; What the World Needs to Know About the Emerging Superpower. New York: Public Affairs, 2006.

Bergsten, C. Fred, Charles Freeman, Nicholas R. Lardy, and Derek J. Mitchell. China's Rise: Challenges & Opportunities. Washington, D.C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics/Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2008.

ChinaDaily.com. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn.

China Internet Information Center. State Council Information Office/China International Publishing Group, Beijing. http://www.china.org.cn.

ChinaToday.com. InfoPacific Development, Inc. (Canada)/Kompass (China). http://www.chinatoday.com.

Fallows, James. Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China. New York: Vintage Books, 2009.

Fishman, Ted C. China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World. New York: Scribner, 2006.

Gifford, Rob. China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power. New York: Random House, 2007.

Kynge, James. China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future–and the Challenge for America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

McGregor, James. One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China. New York: Free Press, 2005.

Meredith, Robyn. The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.

Morning Sun: A Film and Website about Cultural Revolution. http://morningsun.org.

Naughton, Barry. The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007.

Pan, Philip P. Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

Shapiro, Robert J. Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008.

Shirk, Susan L. China: Fragile Superpower; How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

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