Arrival of Industry Brings Suffering to Countryside by Louisa Lim

In an article on NPR called “Arrival of Industry Brings Suffering to Countryside” written on May 19, 2006, Louisa Lim discusses in a conversation with a farmer from a rural village, “That factory makes a lot of money," he says. "Government departments gain a lot of tax revenue from it, so when it comes to our problems, they just push us aside. Nobody cares about us farmers”(Louisa Lim). In Globalization: The Making of World Society by Frank J. Lechner and Post American World, 2.0 by Fareed Zakaria, the two works deal with the rise of globalization. Though Lechner shows one aspect through the “rise of the East” and China’s middle class population implications, we see a different side to this issue in Zakaria’s book where he discusses the aspect through the “rise of the Rest” which includes Brazil, Russia, India and China’s middle class population implications. In contrasting these two works, audiences come to understand that trade and economic expansion will affect China’s players, resources and middle and lower global communities. Because, rural villages are being abandoned as urban factories keep expanding. These rural villages are being affected by China’s economic expansion, which is affecting all countries as a whole that rely on China through trade.

In Zakaria’s book he discusses how China and India are making big impactions on the worlds economy. He states, “One way to think about India and China is as two great global deflation machines, pumping out goods (China) and services (India) for a fraction of what they would cost to produce in the West”(43). Zakaria argues that China pumping out goods is a good thing and that it will benefit their economy as well as countries economies that rely on trade with China. But, what is...

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Lim, Louisa. "Arrival of Industry Brings Suffering to Countryside." NPR. NPR, 19 May 2006. Web. 30 Mar. 2014.

• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5416431

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Wu, Bin. Yao, Shujie. “Empty Villages in Poor Areas of China.” The University of Nottingham China Institute. N.p., Jan. 2010. Web. 30 Mar. 2014.

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