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A fascinating and provocative look at modern China Author Jonathan Clements presents China as the Chinese themselves see their country. He explains the key issues of national reconstruction; the Cold War, the Cultural Revolution, and the dizzying spectacle of China's economic reform. Clements offers a Chinese perspective on such events as the handover of Hong Kong, and chronicles the historical events that continue to resonate today in Chinese politics, economics, culture and quality of life. A final chapter examines China's role in the global marketplace, its indirect effect on foreign economies from Australia to America to Africa, and its growing military might, with an assessment of the damage done to its environment and population. In his most provocative assertion, Clements suggests that China's contemporary problems are not the trials of a developing nation, but a possible vision of our own future.
About the Author
Jonathan Clements is the author of "How to Think About Money" and editor of HumbleDollar.com. He is the former personal-finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Jonathan was born in England, graduated from Cambridge University and now lives just outside New York City. He wrote for Euromoney and Forbes before joining The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for almost 20 years. He also spent six years at Citigroup as Director of Financial Education for the bank's U.S. wealth-management business. Jonathan has written seven books -- a novel and six guides to personal finance. You can follow him on Twitter @ClementsMoney and on Facebook at Jonathan Clements Money Guide. There are two other authors called Jonathan Clements, both of whom are also from England. One died in the late 1990s and wrote a slew of children's books. The other is very much alive and writes about East Asian history.
