Curiosity is the only thing that drove author Sara Bongiorni into launching her family boycott of Chinese products in 2005.
Her book, "A Year Without 'MADE IN CHINA': One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy," is "not a political book, it's a funny family story," Bongiorni, an American freelance journalist living in Louisiana, said at a media gathering Thursday in Tokyo to promote the launch of the Japanese version the same day.
"It was a spontaneous idea" that occurred as she was looking around a room and realized she was literally surrounded by Chinese products, she said, adding that, at the time, she "wasn't thinking of writing a book about it."