China special: FDI and saving face

09.08.2006

centuries, humans have been obsessed with predicting the future.

Sporting-event outcomes, fashion trends, or impending cataclysms, we

love to prognosticate. In the 1950s, crystal ball-gazers envisioned

cities covered with transparent weatherproof domes, while business

commuters fly to their offices in personal airplanes. The fifties were