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When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change Paperback – 1 April 2011

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    512 pages
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    English
  3. Publisher
    Faber & Faber
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    1 April 2011
  5. Dimensions
    12.5 x 2.7 x 19.5 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    057123982X
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    978-0571239825
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Full of astonishing personal stories, When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change by Jonathan Watts is an essential and incisive discussion on China today - a country on an environmental precipice that will affect the entire world - and a compelling look at the lives of its people.

About the Author

Jonathan Watts is the Guardian's Asia environment correspondent and recently covered the Copenhagen Climate Conference. He was short-listed for Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the 2006 British Press Awards, and he and his research assistant were awarded the One World Media Award for best press story in 2007. In 2009, he was a co-winner of the environment prize at the One World Media Awards for a series on the global food crisis.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber; Main edition (1 April 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 057123982X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571239825
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.5 x 2.7 x 19.5 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.1 out of 5 stars 41 ratings

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Jonathan Watts is Latin America correspondent for The Guardian. He was formerly Asia environment correspondent and president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China.

Watts' multimedia career includes seven years in Japan, five trips to North Korea, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and Beijing Olympics and the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. He has lived in London, Manchester, Tokyo, Beijing and now Rio de Janeiro, contributing also at times to the BBC, CNN, Mother Jones, Christian Science Monitor, South China Morning Post, Daily Yomiuri and Asahi Shimbun.

For more information about his book and related multimedia: http://site.whenabillionchinesejump.com

To comment or to see slideshow: http://www.facebook.com/pages/When-a-Billion-Chinese-Jump/102829453102575?ref=mf

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