Bahl, Raghav.

Superpower? : the amazing race between China's hare and India's tortoise / Raghav Bahl. - 1st American ed. - New York : Portfolio / Penguin, 2010. - xxviii, 242 p., [16] p. of plates : 24 cm.

CHINA AND THE ART OF ESCAPE VELOCITY
A BRIC-by-BRIC Shift of Civilizations
Colonial Twins by the Bend in the River
The Hare and the Tortoise: A Twenty-first Century Fable

One
THE RACE BEGINS
The Pillars of a Post-Lehman World
A Hare on Steroids
A Tortoise with New Muscles
Rule of Law, Rule by Law
India's Twice-born Constitution
China's Story of Virtual Justice
My Scam Is Better Than Your Scam

Two
GEO-POLITICS
The Re-arranging World of an Eagle, a Dragon and an Elephant
As the Dragon Makes Peace with the Eagle
As the Dragon Slays the Elephant
As the Elephant Makes a Nest with the Eagle
As the Dragon Also Makes a Nest with the Eagle
As the Eagle, Dragon and Elephant Crowd the Same Nest

Three
ENTREPRENEURS, CONSUMERS AND ENGLISH SPEAKERS
A Tale of Two Demographies
Will China Grow Old Before Getting Rich?
From Communists to Crony Entrepreneurs
Death, Consolidation, Rebirth
The Story of Two Stock Markets
China's 2-Trillion-Dollar Trickle Through
Two Drunken Steps Forward, Two Sideways, One Back
Ni Hui Shuo Ying Yu Ma?
(Thats 'Do You Speak English?' in Chinese)

Four
URBANIZATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
A Rich Dragon's Glorious Head ... Not Slushy Paws
Stifled Voices, Hopeful Slums
Roads Have an Ideology—They Are Capitalist!
Of Roads, by Roads, for Roads
Toll-ways of Growth .
Indian Rail: Squandering a Quarter-Century Lead
Hurtling at 200 km Per Hour
Re-inventing the Wagon-Wheel
The Wright Cousins of India-China
Air Pockets of Nationalization
A Twenty-first-Century Roller Coaster in the Skies
No Contain(er)ing China's Growth
Ports of Good Hope
Power Games in China, Enron in India
Power Thieves at the Taj Mahal

Five
SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Land Ahoy!
The Farmer Shareholder
Everything Else Can Wait, but Agriculture
But China Is Acres Ahead ...
... And India Should Take the Tractor by the Tail
(S)Killing a Growth Story
(S)Killed By Politics
'Bamboo Shoots after a Spring Rain'
Wealth Is Health
A Giant Leap Backwards
Epilogue
FIFTY FIFTY?

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Great powers.
Geopolitics.
Social change--China.
Social change--India.


China--Relations--India.
India--Relations--China.
China--Economic conditions
India--Economic conditions
China--Social conditions
India--Social conditions

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