The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping.
Jonathan Fenby has edited the Observer, the South China Morning
Post and Reuters World Service as well as holding senior positions
at the Economist, Independent and Guardian.
His books include Generalissimo- Chiang Kai-Shek and the China He
Lost, Dealing with the Dragon- A Year in the New Hong Kong, The
General- Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved, The History of
Modern France andTiger Head, Snake Tails- China Today, How It Got
There and Where It is Heading.
He is currently Managing Partner and China Director of the
analytical service Trusted Sources. He was a made a Commander of
the British Empire in 2000 for services to journalism and is a
knight of both the Legion d'honneur and the French Order of Merit.
His book is a miracle of thoroughness, truthfulness and readability
- the perfect primer for a time when China is about to enter all
our lives
*Sunday Telegraph*
Jonathan Fenby's ... illuminating book [is] the first major history
that looks at the country with the eyes of the 21st century rather
than the 20th
*FT*
[It] reads like a novel and is never less than thoughtful and
compassionate for the fate of a much-abused people ... [Fenby has]
a journalist's eye for telling detail
*Herald*
Taut, anecdote-studded ... a great introduction for a general
audience, with vivid scene setting and character sketches
*Sunday Times*
For an accessible, authoritative, fair and comprehensive and well
written account, this would be hard to better
*BBC History*
A wonderful history of modern China and a cracking good read
*Chris Patten*
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