China on the Brink tells the fascinating and ongoing saga of China's troubled emergence from beneath the societal shadows of the Great Wall and the economic shadows of communism. This insider's examination of today's China reveals major conflicts and weaknesses that could derail China's free-market efforts; strategies for investors and businesses to profit--or at least keep from getting burned by Asia's sleeping giant; insider analysis of the fissures and fault lines just beneath the surface of China's economy; and more. Callum Henderson, one of the world's foremost experts on the Asian economy and its problems, takes you beyond facile, scratch-the-surface reports to paint a true picture of today's economic problems and opportunities within the world's most populous country.