This is a comprehensively updated account of where China stands today covering the generational change in the leadership completed in March 2013 the Bo Xilai scandal & the changing course of the world's second largest economy & the last major state ruled by a Communist Party. Named as a book of the year by the Guardian the Financial Times & Bloombery Business Week it lays out the reality behind the spectacular statistics & explains why China has to change if it is to maintain its development & avoid major internal problems China's importance as an increasingly significant global force is a phenomenon of our times but the world's most heavily populated nation has a history of catastrophe & tragedy tyranny & repression abject poverty unfair business practice & corruption
- & now faces environmental degradation & a demographic time bomb. In this compelling & lucid account based on years of research & first-hand experience Jonathan Fenby links together the myriad features of today's China. He delivers a unique & coherent picture of its essence & evolution & contemplates its future
- both alone & connected to the world around it. 'A bestselling examination of modern China by an experienced & fluent commentator'
- Financial Times