A Year Without "Made In China", translated by Professor Hu Zongfeng who is the vice-dean of School of Foreign Study and Ku Ding, is serialized from the first issue of 2011 in Essay whose main editor is the famous writer Jia Pingwa.
A Year Without "Made In China" describes that an ordinary American family tried to live their life depending on their willpower and creativity but not on China— the most rapidly growing economic country on earth. Recording the funny and frustrated adventures in chronological order, this book not only tells many thought-provoking and interesting life stories in such a huge global economy system but also gives a clear picture of how more and more important China is in the world's economy, and it has a wonderful interpretation from the perspective of pipsqueaks. The book reveals that China the manufacturing giant is changing the way of American life in silence, while it focuses on where the globalization and the world's economy would go.