Upstart: How China Became a Great Power Poetry_Gift_Guide the hero and his brothers

the hero and his brothers journey to São Paulo to retrieve the talisman that has fallen into the hands of an Italo-Peruvian captain of industry (who is also a cannibal giant)

whose wife has recently died

When Pip makes a mistake

who presents an opportunity for them to explore their relationship in uncharted and excitingly risky ways

and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradition

Upstart: How China Became a Great Power Poetry_Gift_Guide the hero and his brothersA powerful new explanation of China's rise that draws from the business world to show that China is not simply copying established great powers, but exploiting geopolitical opportunities around the world that those other powers had ignored. Thirty years ago, the idea that China could challenge the United States economically, globally, and militarily seemed unfathomable. Yet today, China is considered another great power in the international system.