The Financial Times ran an excerpt of the book in today's paper. The selection is about Li Luyuan, a factory worker turned real estate agent. The piece ran on the front page of the Life & Arts section internationally and in the magazine in the UK. You can find the excerpt here.
Forbes.com published an excerpt from The China Price today. The selection is about Sam, a young businessman in Hunan, central China. Sam's towel factory is not as competitive as it used to be, and his predicament is emblematic of what is happening at factories across China today. Read the excerpt here.
I'm the author of The China Price, an investigation into the human and environmental cost of our pursuit of ever-cheaper goods. I spent nine years at the Financial Times, covering China, Japan, and the UK. Before joining the FT, I researched Japanese defense policy at Tokyo University’s graduate school and worked as an aide to Nakatani Gen, a Japanese politician. A 1997 cum laude graduate of Princeton University, I was born in Washington, DC and now live in Hong Kong with my husband, the photographer Colin Beere.