(AMACOM: New York) -- Chinese companies are being driven both by domestic pressure from competing Chinese companies at home, and by the need to find new customers as their domestic markets become saturated.

Strengthened by a large, well-educated, low-wage workforce, extensive government support, increased education, and an impressive readiness to adapt with lightning speed, Chinese companies are using revolutionary tactics to take down their competition. Written from the perspective of how China sees the world and how this vision relates to what is actually happening on the ground inside China, In the Shadow of the Dragon: The Global Expansion of Chinese Companies—and How It Will Change Business Forever, by Winter Nie and William Dowell (AMACOM, 2012), is a meticulously researched exposé of the most competitive companies in China.

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