Apple in China: the capture of the world's greatest company

Prologue: "Incomparable" arrogance

Part 1. Saving Apple: The brink of bankruptcy ; Adventures in outsourcing : Japan and Taiwan ; An "outrageous" acquisition ; Columbus : a New World of computing ; "Unmanufacturable" : the iMac

Part 2. Apple's long march to China: Out of the Asian financial crisis : South Korea ; LG goes global : Wales and Mexico ; The Taishang : Taiwanese on the mainland ; The Silicon Valley of hardware : "Foxconn isn't called 'Fox-con' for nothing" ; IBM West : the rise of Tim Cook ; Foxconn goes global : China, California, and the Czech Republic ; A farewell to Mactories

Part 3. Sirensong : consolidation: 1,000 songs : making the iPod in Taiwan ; Flat-out cool! : making the iMac G4 across Asia ; "You're going to give us your 'China cost' for this" ; The replica : making the iPod in China ; Project purple in Asia ; The one device ; The Apple shock

Part 4. Insatiable demand : the iPhone in China: The missionary ; The sewing machine repair shop ; Yellow cows in the gray market ; "Fire that motherfucker!" ; Twin bets : Foxconn and TSMC ; "The Navy SEALs"

Part 5. Political awakening: The despot ; The gang of eight ; The China whisperer ; Voluntary is the new mandatory ; The Apple squeeze ; A Marshall plan for China ; Bureaucratic protection

Part 6. Red Apple: Cognitive dissonance : supplier responsibility ; The figurehead : Isabel Mahe ; The Red supply chain ; "5 alarm fire" ; The Huawei threat ; Global pandemic ; "An unprecedented nightmare for Apple" ; Plan B : assembled in India? ; A staggering vulnerability : TSMC

Conclusion: Unwritten legacy.