Jonathan Fenby, CBE, has been the editor of The Observer and the South China Morning Post. His books include Generalissimo- Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost; Tiger Head, Snake Tails- China Today, How It Got There and Where It Is Heading and The Penguin History of Modern China. He is currently China Director at the research service Trusted Sources.
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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