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Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You´ve Heard About China is Wrong
Ben Chu
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Description for Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You´ve Heard About China is Wrong
Paperback. 'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' [NEW STATESMEN] about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JP; KCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276.
'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' [NEW STATESMEN] about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions.
THE CHINESE ARE THE MOST HARDWORKING PEOPLE ON EARTH...
so why are the younger generation derided as spoiled and lazy?
CHINESE PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT POLITICAL FREEDOM...
so why is the country's internet exploding with anti-regime dissent?
CHINA WILL ONE DAY RULE THE WORLD...
so why do the country's political leaders feel so insecure?
Perhaps it is time to stop engaging in a centuries-old game of Chinese whispers in which the facts have become more and more ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
274g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780224749
SKU
V9781780224749
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Ref
99-10
About Ben Chu
Ben Chu is the Economics Editor of THE INDEPENDENT. He was born and brought up in Manchester, and studied Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford. Read Ben Chu's blog at http://blogs.independent.co.uk/author/benchu and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BenChu_
Reviews for Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You´ve Heard About China is Wrong
Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions - or "whispers" - to let in light on a heterogeneous nation about which it is impossible to generalise
Philip Maughan
NEW STATESMAN
Forget Confucius, [Chu] says: China's thinking is modern, not ancient
THE TIMES
Philip Maughan
NEW STATESMAN
Forget Confucius, [Chu] says: China's thinking is modern, not ancient
THE TIMES