TIGER HEAD, SNAKE TAILS: CHINA TODAY, HOW IT GOT THERE AND WHERE IT IS HEADING
Book ID/图书代码： 12290012B52965
English Summary/英文概要： There have been a plethora of books on China in recent years. Authors have forecast the coming collapse of the People’s Republic or looked to the day when it will rule the world. So why another book on the most heavily populated country on earth which has emerged in the last three decades to occupy a central position on the global stage? Because, despite the stream of publications, there is no single book which pulls together the whole of the China story linking its very disparate elements to present a coherent portrait that explains to the general reader what China is and why it matters so much.
With its expanding economy (already the third largest in the world), its population of more than 1.3 billion, its place at the core of the G20, its $2.4 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, its trade surplus, its nuclear weapons and modernising military forces, its permanent seat on the UN Security Council and its ability to dispense cash without conditions to poor countries in return for the raw materials it gobbles up, China will become steadily more important in the world. It will not collapse. It is not the great exercise in smoke and mirrors depicted by some writers or a giant Ponzi scheme as posited by hedge fund bears. But neither will it rule the world for reasons that lie in its inner complexity, and complexes.
In this compelling and lucid account based on years of research and first-hand experience, rooted in on-the-ground reporting, interviews, observations, analysis of data and a viewpoint that sees the country from the inside out, Jonathan Fenby links together the myriad features of today’s China. The binary approach so often applied to China - the country is either good or bad, set to reach the stars or collapse in chaos - often boils down to the prejudices of its authors. Only by seeing China as a whole and joining the dots does Jonathan Fenby arrive at a coherent picture of its nature and depict its future, both internally and in its impact on the rest of the world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 近幾年已經有過多的有關中國的書籍。作者預測到未來看似即將崩塌的中華人民共和國，將重新主宰世界。所以為何縱觀地球上人口最稠密的國家，在過去的三十年裡，在世界舞臺上佔據著重要的位置？因為，儘管眾多的刊物，沒有一本書整合了全然不同的元素，展現出一幅連貫性的圖像，向普通大眾解釋中國緣何如此重要。
隨著經濟的不斷增長（排列世界第二），已超13億人口，位列與二十國集團的核心，2.4萬億美元的外匯儲備，貿易順差和擁有的核武器現代化的軍事力量，在聯合國安理會的永久席位和為消耗原料，不帶任何條件作為對貧困國家的回報豁免債務的能力，中國將成為逐漸成為世界更為重要的角色。它將屹立不倒。
它不像一些作家或由避險熊市基金所假設的那種巨大的旁氏騙局的虛幻的鏡中迷霧。但它也不會是借助於其自身內在複雜性和多種性來統治世界的原由。
在這部基於多年研究和親身體驗的，令人信服和清晰的文獻中，植根於扎實的報告、訪談、觀測、資料分析和對這個國家由內而外的觀察，喬納森•範比連結起今日中國的眾多特色。經常運用於中國的二進位方法-國家是好是壞，是準備傲世星空或是在混亂中崩塌-經常被其他一些作者的偏見所歸結。只有把中國看成一個整體，連成一點，喬納森•範比才能描繪出本質和未來的清晰圖像，以及中國對國內內部和對世界其他地區的影響。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：Rights sold:US /Overlook Press
’China perplexes the outsider...Rather than history, this is a snapshot of where the nation is today and a quick-fire analysis of what’s next. Any businessman heading for China will find the book a great briefing’ --Michael Sheridan, Sunday Times
’Jonathan Fenby is an outstanding journalist who has already written a first-class modern history of the country, and his latest book provides an excellent introduction to the problems confronting its people as they embark on the transition to the fifth generation of leadership since the Communist takeover in 1949’ --Lord Patten
’There is a risk that a book summarising such a monumental story might get bogged down in dry, statistical detail. Fenby avoids this through lively, first-person reportage and vivid vignettes … as a one-stop guide to political and economic realities in China today, Tiger Head, Snake Tails is fast-moving, informed and illuminating’ --Julia Lovell, Guardian
’There is a risk that a book summarising such a monumental story might get bogged down in dry, statistical detail. Fenby avoids this through lively, first-person reportage and vivid vignettes … as a one-stop guide to political and economic realities in China today, Tiger Head, Snake Tails is fast-moving, informed and illuminating’ --Julia Lovell, Guardian
’A bestselling examination of modern China by an experienced and fluent commentator. Fenby takes a middle course between those who believe China will ’’rule the world’’ and those predicting its imminent collapse’ --Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Summer Books of the Year
’There is a risk that a book summarising such a monumental story might get bogged down in dry, statistical detail. Fenby avoids this through lively, first-person reportage and vivid vignettes … as a one-stop guide to political and economic realities in China today, Tiger Head, Snake Tails is fast-moving, informed and illuminating’ --Julia Lovell, Guardian
About the Author/作者介绍： 喬納森是2006年的Trusted Sources創始人之一。他是在中國強勢投資環境的資深分析師。他的專業領域是對政策、政治和更廣泛的政治經濟的解析。他在北京和倫敦的辦事處成立Trusted Sources四人團隊。喬納森作為一個對中國的政治、經濟和社會事務有著豐富的經驗的作家和評論員。他曾任《南華早報》、《觀察家報》和《路透社世界服務報》的編輯，並曾是《經濟學家》的一位元資深記者。他是是5本關於中國書籍的作者，最近由企鵝出版社發行的《中國近代史》以及被哈珀柯林斯挑選的一本書被《經濟學家》和《金融時報》2008年年度首選書籍。他經常在美國全國廣播公司財經頻道、英國廣播公司和彭博資訊以及其他廣播媒體，英國、美國、歐洲和東亞地區發表關於當代中國的講座。Jonathan Fenby is a former editor of the OBSERVER and of the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. He is the author of several books including the acclaimed ON THE BRINK: THE TROUBLE WITH FRANCE and GENERALISSIMO: CHIANG KAI-SHEK AND THE CHINA HE LOST.
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