Archive · 11 Jun 2025
Apple's China Investment, Gauguin's Controversial Life Examined
Two books are being reviewed, one about Apple's business in China, and the other about the artist Paul Gauguin.
The book about Apple discusses how the company makes most of its products in China.
This has made Apple very successful, but it also makes them dependent on China.
The second book is about Gauguin, a famous artist.
It re-examines his life, including his relationships and art.
The reviews look at both books to give readers a better understanding of the people, places and situations surrounding them.
A new book examines Apple's extensive investment in China, its implications, and its challenges.
Apple manufactures 80% of its products in China, making it vulnerable and contributing to China's technological advancement.
Apple has invested in China on a scale that is difficult to imagine, with the company training over 28 million Chinese workers.
A biography of Paul Gauguin offers a revisionist perspective on the artist's life and work, questioning long-held views.
The biography explores Gauguin's complex relationships and his pursuit of artistic independence.
- Who
- Financial Times reporter Patrick McGee (Apple book) and Sue Prideaux (Gauguin biography).
- What
- Book reviews of 'Apple in China' and 'Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin'.
- When
- From the 1990s to present day (Apple) and Gauguin's life in the late 1800s.
- Where
- China and French Polynesia.
- Why
- The books explore the complexities of Apple's relationship with China, and the life and work of artist Paul Gauguin.
Apple's Perspective
Gauguin's Critics
Apple's relationship with China
Apple's Perspective
Apple's investment benefited both companies.
Gauguin's Critics
Apple's investment helped accelerate China's rise to superpower.
Gauguin's relationship with women
Apple's Perspective
Gauguin's late work is evidence that the accomplishments of the selfish are real.
Gauguin's Critics
Gauguin was a sex tourist who died of the sexually transmitted disease.
- Apple's Product Manufacturing in China
- 80%
- Apple's Investment in China (pledged in 2016)
- $275 million (over 5 years)
- Number of Chinese Workers Trained by Apple
- 28+ million
- Gauguin's Age when he moved to Tahiti
- 43
- Gauguin's life span
- 54 years