Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You’ve Heard About China is Wrong The result is a penetrating, surprising and provocative insight into China today.'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' NEW STATESMEN about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions.TH
| TITLE | : | Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You’ve Heard About China is Wrong |
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| RATING | : | 4.63 (334 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1780224745 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 280 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2014-11-04 |
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'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 EARTHso why are the younger generation derided as spoiled and lazy?CHINESE PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT POLITICAL FREEDOMso why is the country's internet exploding with anti-regime dissent?CHINA WILL ONE DAY RULE THE WORLDso 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.
EDITORIAL :
Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions - or "whispers" - to let in light on a heterogenous nation about which it is impossible to generaliseNEW STATESMAN
Forget Confucius, Chu says: China's thinking is modern, not ancientTHE TIMES
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