- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Gibson Square Books Ltd; First Edition edition (21 Aug 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906142165
- ISBN-13: 978-1906142162
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.4 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 540,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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George Walden is uniquely placed to trace China s epic journey from Maoist hysteria to economic giant over four decades. One of a handful of Chinese-speaking Westerners who was in China during the Cultural Revolution in the 60s, he has visited the country many times since as diplomat, politician, journalist and writer. For years the West has mythologised China as sphinx, utopia or demon. Now that we face the fact of Chinese power, we cannot afford to get China wrong and need to understand what really drives her. Covering Chinese life from economics and politics to sex and the arts, Walden writes controversially and colourfully about a country he knows and admires though now is a time for realism. No major country in history has emerged into the international arena without asserting itself forcefully. China will not easily forget her past humiliations at the hands of the West.
About the Author
George Walden was a career diplomat in Communist China - he is fluent in Chinese (Mandarin) - before becoming a politician, government minister and writer. His previous books include the acclaimed Time to Emigrate? He frequently writes in The Times, Daily Telegraph.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a MUST READ for anyone with any interest in life beyond the next episode of Big Brother. As someone who has 'been there' - and a few other places in the world - for me it all rings horribly true It will be a much-needed eye-opener to many. My only cavil is not with the author but with the publisher: cheaply produced (and to be fair cheaply priced) and looking like it, it must have been rushed into print to catch the Sino-Olympic fever - the sub-editing and proof-reading are apalling if not non-existent, frequent spelling mistakes and other betizes. George Walden's wise words deserve better than this.
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excellent book
11 Jun 2011
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insightful and much more nuanced than other analyses of modern china. walden really paints a vivid portrait of the chinese people today and the things that motivate them. truly, the relationship between the united states and china will be the one that defines the next 100 years, and just as truly the united states will be the one who decides the nature of that relationship. after reading this book i wonder if we'll see an official acknowledgement that china no longer adheres to communist ideology but has initiated a kind of 'new imperial' rule.
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