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Chinese Whispers

Ben Chu

'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 distorted in the telling.

Ben Chu examines the myths that have come to dominate our view of the world's most populous nation, forcing us to question everything we thought we knew about it. The result is a penetrating, surprising and provocative insight into China today.

  • Classification : Politics & Current Affairs
  • Pub Date : SEP 4, 2014
  • Imprint : Phoenix
  • Page Extent : 288
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781780224749
  • Price : INR 699
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Ben Chu

Ben is Policy and Analysis Correspondent at BBC Verify. Previously he was Economics Editor at Newsnight, and at the Independent prior to that. Ben was nominated for Business Journalist of the Year at the 2015 British Journalism Awards and for Business Commentator of the Year at the 2018 Comment Awards. His first book Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You've Heard about China is Wrong was nominated for International Affairs Book of the Year at the Paddy Power Political Book Awards in 2014. Ben was born in Manchester to a Chinese father and British mother. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

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