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anuary 9-20, 2006:
Marketplace broadcast live from China, presenting a range of special reports on Marketplace, the Marketplace Morning Report, and Marketplace Money. Kai Ryssdal hosted all three programs.
Download full-show audio of Marketplace Live from China shows (13 MB .MP3 files):
Reich on America's competitiveness
Kai Ryssdal discusses the China fear factor with former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. Is America losing its competitive advantage? (01/20/2006)
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Toward a more sustainable China
Conventional wisdom suggests that China has yet to go green. But the Chinese government wants to leapfrog Western-style industrialization and pioneer a whole new Green economy. From the Marketplace Sustainability Desk, Sam Eaton reports. (01/20/2006)
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Should we fear China... or ourselves?
Commentator and author James McGregor doesn't believe China is the big bad economic wolf. He says Americans should worry about our own inability to compete in the global market. (01/20/2006)
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One US automaker's perspective
Chris Brown, an American automaker, shares what it's like to be losing the battle over production and manufacturing. (01/20/2006)
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The three Marketplace programs took you all over the map of China. Want to see where our stories took place? Check out our story map.
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Live from China Credits
See a list of the many, many people who contributed to this special two-week broadcast.
In November, Kai Ryssdal revisited Sanlitun, his old neighborhood in Beijing. View Kai's photos while listening to him describing the changes he saw taking place.
Marketplace reporter Scott Tong travels to Shanghai to meet the Gaos... a family that's part of China's growing urban class.
Chongqing Migrant Worker Xu Shiqing
Scott Tong's photographs of Chongqing porter Xu Shiqing and his family.
Sam Eaton's photographs of China.
Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal makes the scene in Shanghai with some 20-somethings who are coming to grips with the implications of disposable income.
Toward a More Sustainable China
More of Sam Eaton's photographs -- these ones are from Shanghai and Pudong.
Qilai Shen's photographs of the Chinese musicians who did all our music for the special.
Some shots of our hosts and reporters bringing you the program... and trying to stay warm.
View additional photography from our team of reporters and photographers.
Re-envisioning the Marketplace Music
Some of China's preeminent musicians got together and put a Chinese spin on our theme music and create some new transitions for us. Read more about the musicians, see photos, and check out video and audio clips from their sessions.
A brief tour of China's economic history
China has an incredibly long and complex economic history. We've summarized some of the highlights in this interactive China Timeline.
The bill
Nate DiMeo, 01/19/2006
I've found myself completely fascinated by the receipts you get after you pay for dinner here.
Say you've just taken a few friends out for hot pot. ... continue reading.
CQ's finest
Brett Neely, 01/19/2006
A few days ago I got a chance to visit a local high school class (actually called middle schools here). Of course, it turned out it wasn't just any ... continue reading.
Reporting on China's Disenfranchised: The Great Land Grab
Jocelyn Ford, 01/18/2006
First thing this morning, the phone rang.
"Are your bags packed?" It was my editors in Los Angeles. There are reports of village protests in Southern China over confiscated land. ... continue reading.
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