Top business book award for ‘gripping’ book on China growth

A “gripping” exploration of the economic and business implications of China’s breakneck growth, China Shakes the World, has won the 2006 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS - news) Business Book of the Year award.

James Kynge, the book’s author, collected the £30,000 top prize at a ceremony in New York on Thursday night. The judges praised the pace and style of the book, published by Houghton Mifflin.

The other finalists were: The Long Tail, Chris Anderson’s look at the economics of the internet; Bo Burlingham’s Small Giants about US companies that decide to be great instead of big; The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman, an analysis of the world’s biggest retailer; and The Box, an investigation by Marc Levinson of the container’s impact on world trade.

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