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What the experts are saying about China Inside Out…

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A first-rate guide to today’s China. Gets under the skin of the emerging super power.

Jonathan Fenby
Author, Penguin History of Modern China

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Bill Dodson’s book is a wonderfully clear-headed, no-nonsense guide to the internal forces that are propelling China forward, backward, and sideways. It is properly assertive about the things that can be known, and open-minded about the many things that can’t. Anyone who wants to understand China better will enjoy this book.

James Fallows
Author, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China

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Dodson presents each section of his book with an engaging balance of large- and small-scale narrative. China Inside Out merits its title by zooming in on the real power players in China’s evolution—its citizens. Dodson clearly knows China and understands that its people, not its policies, have been and will continue to be China’s defining force.

Dan Harris
Founding Member, Harris & Moure
Co-editor, China Law Blog

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An extraordinarily accurate, complete, and coherent depiction of the daily reality that China’s 1.5 billion individuals   confront, cope with, push back against, and ultimately shape.

Janet Carmosky
CEO, The China Business Network

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Bill Dodson provides a reasoned and balanced ground level analysis of China’s social and economic fault lines and stress points. There’s no pulling of punches here as he concentrates on the often uncomfortable, but necessary, truths anyone connecting with China needs to know.

Paul French
Chief China Analyst, Access Asia Shanghai
Co-author, Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation

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A crisp and very readable introduction to the key issues driving change in China today. Recommended.

Graham Earnshaw
Publisher, China Economic Review

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Bill Dodson provides a grown-up look at modern China and its growing pains, introducing some of real people there. It’s a smooth, quick read. We predict this rising power’s future at our peril; Dodson lays out a reasoned narrative. If you care about the China behind the label—the aspirations, challenges and insecurities—give it a spin.

Scott Tong
Former China Bureau Chief, Marketplace Public Radio

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Bill Dodson takes readers beyond the usual expats hubs of China and offers a wide view of the momentous trends boiling below and above the surface of China today. With energy and insight, China Inside Out updates, often startlingly, much of what you think you know about the country.

Ted C. Fishman
Author, China, Inc. and Shock of Gray

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Bill Dodson knows more about China business and society than just about anyone writing today. In China Inside Out Dodson does an outstanding job of connecting the dots from international headlines to middle class Chinese households. It has become accepted wisdom that China is an economic powerhouse, but this work helps to fesh out bare statistics and gets to the heart of what is driving 21^st Century China—its people. In this ambitious work, Dodson has identified the big trends that will push China to new levels of global influence—for good or ill—and analyzes how China will interact with the world and environment to shape its own future.

Andrew Hupert
Publisher, ChinaSolved.com
Adjunct Professor, NYU in Shanghai

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With years of consulting experience in China, Bill Dodson not only studies China’s trends, he lives them. Dodson is an astute observer of China’s society and economy.

Rob Schmitz
China Bureau Chief, Marketplace, American Public Media