The One Hour China Contrarian Book: Four Things Everyone Is Getting Wrong About China Business

Following the success of their best-selling One Hour China Books, Peking University Professors Jonathan Woetzel and Jeffrey Towson are back with a collection of essays on China business – and to detail four things everyone is getting wrong about China. In this one hour "speed read", the authors present +30 essays that make four main contrarian points: 1) China needs smarter, not faster growth. 2) Yes, Chinese consumers are rising. But they are changing even faster. And they are disrupting everything. 3) China can innovate big time. 4) At home and abroad, Chinese companies can beat you fair and square. Author Jonathan Woetzel is a senior partner of McKinsey & Company. He opened McKinsey's Shanghai location in 1995 and has been resident since then. He currently the global leader of its Cities Special Initiative and the Asia-based Director of the McKinsey Global Institute. He has led many of the Firm’s most significant projects in China including the first major international listing of a Chinese company and the development of the economic plans for the cities of Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Xian and Harbin among others. He co-chairs the Urban China Initiative. Author Jeffrey Towson is a private equity investor and advisor, professor and best-selling author. His writing and speaking are on how rising Chinese consumers (and companies) are disrupting global markets. (#consumerchina). He was previously Head of Direct Investments for Middle East North Africa and Asia Pacific for Prince Alwaleed, nicknamed by Time magazine the “Arabian Warren Buffett”.