Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%

There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia by Michael Wesley

New South, $32.95 pb, 202 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

Sometime around 1820, forty years after its Industrial Revolution began, Britain overtook China to become the world’s richest country. Sometime between now and 2020, forty years after China’s own Industrial Revolution was launched by Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, China is set to overtake the United States and regain its place at the top of the world’s economy.

 


Continue reading for only $10 per month.
Subscribe and gain full access to Australian Book Review.

Already a subscriber? .
If you need assistance, feel free to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..



There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia by Michael Wesley

New South, $32.95 pb, 202 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


From the New Issue

Now, the People!: France’s populist left leader by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, translated from French by David Broder

by Peter McPhee

On Display: A story worth telling by Laura Couttie

by Julie Ewington

What Is Wrong with Men by Jessa Crispin & The Male Complaint by Simon James Copland

by Tom Ryan

You May Also Like

Four Corners: Twenty-five years by Robert Pullan

by Albert Moran

The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume 3 edited by Paul Hetherington

by Ian Britain

Textual Spaces by Stephen Muecke

by David Goodman

The Sleepers Almanac, No. 5 edited by Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn & New Australian Stories by Aviva Tuffield

by Georgina Arnott

Leave a comment

If you are an ABR subscriber, you will need to sign in to post a comment.

If you have forgotten your sign in details, or if you receive an error message when trying to submit your comment, please email your comment (and the name of the article to which it relates) to ABR Comments. We will review your comment and, subject to approval, we will post it under your name.

Please note that all comments must be approved by ABR and comply with our Terms & Conditions.

Submit comment