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China Airborne Kindle Edition

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More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011, China announced its Twelfth Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. Its goal is to produce the Boeings and Airbuses of the future. Toward that end, it acquired two American companies: Cirrus Aviation, maker of the world’s most popular small propeller plane, and Teledyne Continental, which produces the engines for Cirrus and other small aircraft.
 
In
China Airborne, James Fallows documents, for the first time, the extraordinary scale of this project and explains why it is a crucial test case for China’s hopes for modernization and innovation in other industries. He makes clear how it stands to catalyze the nation’s hyper-growth and hyper- urbanization, revolutionizing China in ways analogous to the building of America’s transcontinental railroad in the nineteenth century. Fallows chronicles life in the city of Xi’an, home to more than 250,000 aerospace engineers and assembly workers, and introduces us to some of the hucksters, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who seek to benefit from China’s pursuit of aerospace supremacy. He concludes by examining what this latest demonstration of Chinese ambition means for the United States and the rest of the world—and the right ways to understand it.

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*Starred Review* Atlantic correspondent Fallows dives into this most timely subject and, in brisk yet erudite language, takes readers on a tour of China’s burgeoning aviation industry. Along the way, he provides an in-depth look at a place where general aviation is nearly nonexistent, multimillion dollar airports are built before airline traffic is approved, and the military holds ultimate control over all of the airspace. This economic and political narrative includes a great deal of history as well, including that of the American aircraft company Cirrus (now owned by the Chinese government, a subject that Fallows hints is worthy of a book of its own) and a significant look at the shadow Boeing casts worldwide. Fallows’ prescient look at society, culture, and business is based on his conversations with numerous individuals in China who spoke to him about the hard shift required to change gears and embrace open and accessible aviation, and the epic hurdles that stand in the way. Paired with China’s Wings (2012), readers will acquire an unparalleled view of China in the air past, present, and future. Highly readable and significant, Fallows’ book should not be missed by those seeking to understand America’s relationship with this global power. --Colleen Mondor

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“That is the new book by James Fallows.  On the surface it is a book about aviation in China, but it is also one of the best books on China (ever), one of the best books on industrial organization in years, and an excellent treatment of economic growth.  It is also readable and fun.” —Tyler Cowen
 
“Not only does the book benefit from Fallows’ keen observations as a journalist in China, but also it is enriched by his technical knowledge as a passionate aviator. The result is informative and lively.” —
The Economist  
 
“What sets
China Airborne apart from other books on China's rise is Fallows' remarkable ability to analyze both China's unprecedented achievements in economic modernization and its inherent limitations. . . . The story so brilliantly told in China Airborne, a metaphor for the much bigger story of China's rise, suggests that no one should take its future as a superpower for granted.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“It is worth the reader’s time to obtain it and read it. It is a timely look at a country in a newly dangerous economic and political situation. Understanding that situation is of utmost importance to the rest of the world.” —
Asia Sentinel

“Fallows has an earthy, engaging style, and he sees the human stories of government officials, entrepreneurs, workers and intellectuals all pursuing the dreams they have for themselves and their country as they take off together into the skies…The book is accessible in different ways to different people. Sinologists and aviation geeks like me will happily pore through Mr. Fallows' detailed endnotes, trapped at the back where they won't bother casual readers. People looking for a grab buy at the airport will find something light that will also make them think. Businesspeople, students, or tourists going to China can pick this up and get a good grip on the Chinese zeitgeist.” —
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

“Fallows keeps the reader engaged by weaving personal stories and lively personalities into his depiction of the changing aerospace landscape…his book makes for an intriguing read, looking at both sides of the picture: reasons for why China might succeed, as well as those for why the country might struggle.” —
Publishers Weekly 

“Prescient. . . . Highly readable and significant, Fallows’ book should not be missed by those seeking to understand America’s relationship with this global power.”  —
Booklist, starred review

“Precise yet accessible. . . . An enjoyable, important update on an enigmatic economic giant.” —
Kirkus  

“Will China change the 21st century, or be changed by it?
China Airborne describes a country ambitiously soaring to fantastic new heights even as its destination remains perilously uncertain. James Fallows reports elegantly on the puzzles and paradoxes of this massive nation and its quest for global prominence.” —Patrick Smith, author of Somebody Else’s Century   
 
“James Fallows has found a brilliant metaphor for China, and he is uniquely qualified to unspool the tale. Based on years of firsthand experience on the ground in China—and in cockpits around the world—this book showcases his gifts for deep reporting and analysis. Fallows doesn't simply bear witness; he unravels and dissects. For this vast country to achieve a leading role in the aerospace industry, it must attain standards of innovation, efficiency and precision that would signal a new era in the rise of a superpower. Has it attained that level? There is no better writer to find the answer, and Fallows has done it.” —Evan Osnos, contributor to
The New Yorker
 
“In
China Airborne, Fallows tells the story of China’s efforts to become a global leader in aviation and aerospace, a story that reveals the economic and political tensions in contemporary China.  China’s past economic success has been built on a combination of massive investment and labor force mobilization—what Fallows calls “hard” economic power and autocratic political control.  But success in aerospace, like success in other industries that depend on innovation, requires what Fallows calls “soft” economic power—things like trust, honest and transparent regulation, coordination between civil, commercial and military organizations, and a culture of free research and exchange of ideas.  Anyone interested China’s future economic, technological  and political developments should read Fallows’ fascinating and insightful new book.” —Laura Tyson, Former Director of the National Economic Council and Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Clinton Administration, professor and former dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley



Praise for James Fallows
“Fallows is refreshingly aware. . . . A shrewd observer of human foibles and political quagmires with the eye for detail of an experienced journalist, he gives us panoramic views of China that are both absorbing and illuminating.” —Jonathan Spence, The New York Times Book Review
 
“Fallows represents the best of American journalism—honest, fearless, and hard-hitting. Moving easily among Chinese, from the ordinary to the high-ranking, he reports from China as an American observer, with the same questions and frustrations that most Americans feel but without either the prejudices of some or the ideological pixilation of others.” —Sidney Rittenberg, Sr., coauthor of
The Man Who Stayed Behind
 
Postcards from Tomorrow Square offers some wonderful snapshots of the contradictions of modern China. As always, Fallows writes from the front lines with insight and flair.”  —Rob Gifford, author of China Road
 
“James Fallows’s insatiable curiosity and clear narrative make his China journey a real reward.”  —John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Computer

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005QPIA2Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (May 15, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 15, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1000 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 265 pages
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Customers find the book provides an insightful look into China's aspirations and unique culture. They describe it as a thrilling and enjoyable read with great writing quality. Readers appreciate the author's clear understanding of what makes China unique and interesting. The book provides a good overview of modern China through the lens of the author's experiences. However, opinions differ on the pacing - some find it consistent and good, while others feel underwhelmed or disappointed.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2012
    Let me admit it up front: Few topics could bore me as much as avionics and the aerospace industry. I only want to know that my pilot can take off, get me to where I want to go and land the plane safely. I don't really know the difference between the words "avionics" and "aerospace." So I approached China Airborne with a touch of trepidation: How could I possibly enjoy a book about a topic I find dryer than dust?

    Leave it to James Fallows to take a subject to which I am indifferent (if not downright hostile) and turn it into a story of suspense and adventure, human and technological, and to delight me with every page. Yes, China Airborne is about aviation in China, how it started, how it has evolved and where it's heading, yet the book transcends its ostensible subject, which Fallows uses as a metaphor for China's evolution in general, for its advancement into the modern era, and all the challenges it faces as it seeks to break away from its role as the maker of goods designed by others to a nation that actually pioneers new technologies.

    Before the 1990s China's aviation industry lagged drastically behind that of the developed world, to say the least. Most of the planes were Russian made, the airports were primitive and few, and its safety record atrocious. Now China is home to some of the world's most impressive airports, its aviation industry is growing at breakneck speed with billions of dollars in government funding, and it boasts one of the highest air safety records in the world.

    How China got here is a breathtaking story, a story of China's famous "can-do" attitude and willingness to throw itself into the projects it sets its sights on. An important part of this story and one the Chinese are less likely to talk about is the role of US entities, especially companies like Boeing and engineers and contractors from US agencies, which guided China along the way over the decades. Fallows charts China's progress during these years and introduces us to the cast of characters who possessed the vision, the skills and the sheer bravura to move China's aviation industry into the modern age.

    Fallows' description of the proposed development of an avionics research center in a remote area outside of Xi'An immediately brought to mind a chapter in <a href="[...]>Peter Hessler's Country Driving</a>, where he describes the building of a factory in China that plans to manufacture the little metal rings that hold brassieres together. They have no customers, no plans for sales or marketing, no business infrastructure, yet they pour money into building the factory, get it going into full swing and hire a complete staff. Eventually, after several months, they begin to get customers. Build it, and they will come. The same, it seems, with this aviation center and its grandiose plans to transform the region to attract tourists and become China's center for aviation research.

    Fallows describes how projects like these begin at the local level in China, the first step being winning the blessing of local officials and convincing them of the financial rewards to their region. A lot of guanxi is expended along the way. The dreamers will worry about getting the central government involved later. The avionics center project was immense, and Fallows' descriptions of the building of runways in what was essentially the wilderness are amusing but also so quintessentially Chinese -- we can do this, and we can do it on a grand scale! The obstacles they face -- and there will be many -- can be dealt with later.

    A pilot himself (the book begins with his preparation to co-pilot the first Cirrus plane in China), Fallows obviously loves this topic. The breadth of his knowledge is sweeping and I closed the book rather amazed at all I had learned about what it takes to manage international flight, how today's jets are built, how new GPS systems are changing how pilots take off and land and making it possible to put up runways even in remote rugged mountain terrain in Tibet. As I started the book I didn't really <em>want</em> to know about these things, but I was quickly engrossed.

    To a large extent this book is about China's efforts to adapt to an age when leading an industry means opening up your people's minds to new ideas, to new ways of thinking, to sharing knowledge and information. The last quarter of the book is less about flight and more about the Chinese government's conflicting interests, ones we've discussed so many times here: retaining control and directing people's thoughts vs. opening up and encouraging talent to blossom. If China wants to be on the frontier of the aerospace industry it needs to draw talent from all over the world. It will have to loosen the military's grip on who controls the skies so the industry can operate without ridiculous and irrational restrictions.

    Fallows makes the point more than once that China has the hardware, the money and the facilities but, he writes, "it lacks the 'soft' ingredients necessary for a fully functioning, world-leading aerospace establishment. These include standards that apply consistently across the country rather than depending on the whim and favor of local potentates. Or smooth, quick coordination among civil, military and commercial organizations. Or sustaining the conditions -- intellectual property protection, reliable contract enforcement and rule of law, freedom of inquiry and expression -- that allow first-rate research-and-developments institutions to thrive and attract talent from around the world. If China can succeed fully in aerospace, then in principle there is very little it cannot do."

    Fallows doesn't pretend to be a prophet and he leaves this question open. But he is clear about one thing: without the requirements he lists, without greater rule of law and respect for contracts, without protection of intellectual property, China will surely fail to meet its objective. It will not lead the world in technology and innovation. The book is all about China's dreamers and their dreams. It would be such a pity to see China's inflexibility and insecurities hold its people's dreams back.

    Boeing and Airbus see China as its most promising market and have agreed to joint ventures that involve the sharing of technology, despite the risks, because they know this is where the customers of the future are. China will play a huge role in the assembly of today's incredibly complex jetliners, just as it does with iPhones. It will be buying more aircraft than any other nation. But can China design the next jetliner or iPhone?

    It cannot, Fallows argues, unless it embraces "the openness and experimentation that world leadership in fields like aerospace would demand." China now shields its people, protects them from "harmful content" on the Internet, which Fallows says makes many Chinese feel "infantilized and diminished by this reminder that they're not quite part of the modern world." China has to deal, too, with its paranoia and prickly sensitivities, its inability to deflect incidents like Liu Xiaobo's winning the Nobel Peace Prize instead of being thrown off balance and revealing its insecurities to the world. There's a lot about China's thirst for soft power, and how it always gets put onto the back burner behind China's No. 1 priority, internal stability and complete power of the party.

    I bookmarked so many passages in this wonderful book, and I can't go into every aspect of it that I enjoyed. It is about so much more than I can say here. It's worth reading just for Fallows' description of how he and his wife were bullied by plainclothes police at Tiananmen Square on the 20-year anniversary of the June 4th crackdown (an incident he blogged about at the time).

    You come away from this book so impressed with what China has done and can do, with just how extraordinary its progress has been and how its authoritarian system has, so far, worked well enough that most people in China would say their lives are better off today than they were twenty or thirty years ago. But you also come away with strong doubts about China's ability to rise to the next stage of power, where its people's creativity and imaginations are unleashed, and where universal laws are respected. Where China becomes a true global citizen, concerned not so much with the specialness of China but with China's role as a world leader. (This discussion of how China fosters the notion of its own uniqueness, with 5,000 years of history, as opposed to its place within the world community as a nation that cares -- or at least pretends to care -- about other nations aside from itself is one of the most fascinating in the book.)

    I strongly recommend this book to anyone seeking to understand China and its place in the 21st century. Fallows' accumulated wisdom of living in China, starting with his first visit there in 1986, pervades every page, and you will be thinking about where China is heading for a long time after you put it down.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2013
    Mr.Fallows does a great job of articulating his experiences while abroad in China and using the challenges faced by the aerospace industry in that country to highlight what it may take to bring China fully to world prominence and perhaps even pre-eminence. While in China I have felt that this is what it must have seemed like in the US at the turn of the 20th century. What is occurring is exciting but there is a feeling of discomfort and uncertainty just below the surface. Mr. Fallows captures this and the question of whether China has the resolve and vision to make the 21st century the "Chinese Century".
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2012
    You might assume that attempting to get the current Chinese leadership to allow private ownership of small planes and helicopters to utilize Chinese airspace to be no big deal. But given that unlike most of the nations of the industrialized world - China has no general (private) aviation and until recently - had few airports and runways, trained pilots, very few flight controllers, aircraft fuel supplies, aircraft service centers or trainers to teach pilots or train expert mechanics to service aircraft. Well - things are about to change and change radically and rapidly: Like everything else in China's lightening-fast pace of playing catch-up with the rest of the world - Jame's Fallow's account of how today's China plans on becoming a world leader in aircraft and aerospace manufacturing and expertise is simply incredible! And the cost to China and the world in terms of the associated pollution associated with such a massive expansion of air travel, construction of hundreds of new airports, and aircraft manufacturing is not without a terrible potential toll. James Fallows tells this story as if it were an adventure novel - and in doing so sheds more light on the mysteries and wonders of the largest populated nation on the planet and how its secretive government plans to take-over this industry in a relatively short time - and what consequences are in store for all while that happens. A thrilling read, indeed.
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2014
    Piecing together the conundrum that is china is extremely difficult for those that have not spent much time in china. This book reveals with first hand accounts the tale of two cities that is china through the lens of an aviation enthusiast.

    It considers many of the aspects required for china to ascend to a first class aviation designer and builder. But, places many of the requirements in the light of the author's experiences and the manner in which china operates today from both a government perspective but also a historical perspective providing context for the reader to assess the probabilities of success for china in this massive endeavor.

    I found this book very helpful in filling in the pieces I needed to gain a better understanding of the current state of China's aviation industry. It also does a good job of revealing many of the personalities that have been instrumental in China's aviation ascendancy. The reason I gave this book five stars is that it does not come to any conclusions. It merely provides perspectives and context for the reader to come to his/her own opinion.

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  • B.T.M. vd Laan/T.D. Bakker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2015
    Very good book on recent aviation history
  • Gabriele Rossi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Libro "laterale" sullo sviluppo dell'economia cinese
    Reviewed in Italy on February 9, 2013
    Affronta il tema dello sviluppo in Cina parlando della crescita dell'industria aeronautica e del turismo.
    Differente dalla maggioranza dei libri sulla Cina moderna, molte informazioni interessanti non si trovano in altri libri.
    L'autore e' un famoso giornalista dell'Atlantic e pilota di piccoli aerei.

    ***letto in kindle***
  • TKR
    5.0 out of 5 stars Insider expertise from outside....
    Reviewed in Canada on September 9, 2012
    Building a successful commercial aircraft may seem a routine job these days; after all, Boeing and Airbus - and Bombardier and Embraer in modest measures - have done it so many times! But not so, certainly not by an emerging economy, a fact easily overlooked by many western observers, particularly those impressed by the brilliant achievements of China in many areas of manufacturing and over-awed by China's readiness to pump literally billions of dollars into their latest large aircraft venture. James Fallows's book 'China Airborne' offers the readers a rare combination of panoramic views of China's fragmented but seemingly homogenious power structure as well as close-up views of how a successful commercial aircraft is designed and built. The author takes an inventory of the various ways in which the west, particularly America, has helped China achieve a remarkable measure of safety in their skies within the last two decades, and at the same time questions the policies of the present government which does not seem to understand what is needed for success in commercial aircraft industry. Good airlplane design is a combination of myriad number of sciences and needs to be mastered little by little, much like playing a symphony, which cannot be achieved overnight through money or power. The author makes the case that the lack of openness will only hamper the process of honest interaction both within Chinese society and with other advanced countries. This is an amazingly well-written book, remarkable for the author's keen insight into what goes into the makings of safe and successful aviation and the rarely understood link with the structure of a society. A `must-read' for all China-watchers, particularly those preoccupied with China's 'challenge' of the duopoly of Boeing and Airbus...
  • Alexander Riley
    4.0 out of 5 stars China in One Industry
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2022
    Fascinating book by a journalist who clearly is deeply knowledgeable about China. However, since this was written a while ago and China moves fast, the work is now a little out of date.

    This is not necessarily a bad thing; it's interesting to see which of Fallow's predictions have come about and which haven't. In particular, contrary to his assessment, China does seem to have become an "innovation nation", and his predictions about the devestating effects that shutting american big tech out from behind the great firewall of China haven't aged well at all. In fact this has had the Listian or Hamiltonian effect of nuturing a giant, super-competitive native Chinese tech industry, with companies like Baidu rising up to fill the spot that Google would have made for itself in the Chinese market. If anything China seems to have been too succesful on this front, if the sudden crackdowns on Chinese big tech are anything to go by it seems the CCP are worried they've created a creature that's beyond their ability to control.

    But more relevantly, Fallows seems to have remained right on the money about the aerospace industry; just in the last month China had another major airline crash. In the book, Fallows claims that creating a viable aerospace industry and associated regulatory apparatus needed to maintain it is in many ways a greater challenge than getting a man on the moon. The question is... can China do it?
  • Ron Crooks
    5.0 out of 5 stars Can China move to the next level or will it be doomed to supply cheap manpower for inventions made elsewhere?
    Reviewed in Canada on October 28, 2012
    A great read! This books gives numerous insights into the complex workings of the Chinese economy and political structure, highlighting the many potential problems created by a political culture that limits the free exchange of ideas.

    The author presents a compressive look at the many facets of what is working well in China and where the endemic political corruption and state intervention in the economy may limit China's ability to move to a higher level of economic production and success.

    The stated goal of the Chinese government is to create a modern aircraft manufacturing industry with a national expenditure of $250,000,000. Their focus is to build up of economic zones of aeronautical expertise. This may not in fact be enough to create a successful model that will compete with Boeing and Airbus and their emerging rivals Embraer and Bombardier.

    With the author's experience in China and his understanding of what it takes to organize the development of a modern commercial airliner, this book affords the reader with the knowledge of this major industrial initiative and the obstacles China potentially faces if it doesn't move to a more open political and economic model.China Airborne

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