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China's economy has undergone a exceptional transformation, from Communist backwater to world power. But even in a totalitarian regime, the transition hasn't been seamless. For a whole week in January 2006, the daily program Marketplace broadcast live from China, to report first-hand on a booming economy that has altered the competitive landscape. In this collection, you'll hear all five episodes - and also a special edition of the companion program, Marketplace Money.Among the list of subjects covered:

• A new generation of people in China suddenly has choices about where you can live, what kind of job to do, even whom to marry. How are they handling this new degree of self-determination?
• Newly-wealthy entrepreneurs are thriving in China. But they're also struggling with the decadence and consumption that contain become a part of success.
• Americans take ordering online for granted. However in China, it's not so easy. To begin with, almost no one uses credit cards.
• Counterfeit DVDs hit the streets just as genuine hits concert halls in the United States.

Now, the Bush Administration is putting strain on the Chinese government to crack down on piracy. Join the Marketplace team as it travels the space and breadth of the world's most-populous country to determine what makes China's economy tick - and its own impact on most of us.