A Billion To One by Gene Ayres
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- Pub. Date: February 2009
- Publisher: World Audience, Inc.
- Format: Paperback, 264pp
- ISBN-13: 9781935444060
- ISBN: 1935444069
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China has at last count more than half a billion cell phone users--565 million as of May 2008, according to Xinhua News Service of China. This is almost double to the entire population of the USA. They are not only the world's leading users of mobile phones, but also the leading suppliers. Hello? Has anybody been watching these truly staggering developments taking place behind the scenes while we struggle with our economy, focus on political hype and lose ourselves in Hollywood drama? In China, they are watching us and if imitation is flattery, we should all be very flattered. In his moving memoir, Gene Ayres has accurately described Modern China.
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February 24, 2009: Gene Ayres soaks up the people, food, and blazing modernity of the new China and shares it all in this account of his experiences living and teaching in a Harbin university. His astute observations of places and experiences you'll never encounter as a tourist bring an understanding of the ambition and focus of the youth of a China hungry to play a very major role in the 21st century world. Like being there, sans airfare.
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