Scientific Publishing China's Change: The Greatest Show On Earth (China Studies)

Winner of the Sharjah International Book Fair 2018's Best International Book Award Through the extraordinary array of people he has known and met over 40 years, Hugh Peyman tells the story of today's China in a way that has never been done before. -- Tony Hall, BBC Director-General Hugh Peyman knows what he is talking about. Far from seeing China through a Western prism - and consistently getting things wrong - he understands China like few others. -- Martin Jacques, Best-selling author of When China Rules the World China's Change is essential reading for any serious global investor. Get insights from the perspective of a researcher who sees things from top-down and bottom-up and who has lived in China for 15 years. -- Ng Kok Song, Former Chief Investment Officer of the Government Investment Corporation of Singapore and Adviser to PIMCO Brilliant. China's Change is the book that needs to be written. Just excellent. Monumental. -- Ulrik Trampe, Odin Capital Founder All travelers to China, whether on business, holiday or study, should take this book that has it all on China: history, philosophy, government, politics, business and economics. -- Ho Kwon Ping, Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts Co-Founder, Singapore Management University Trustees Chairman and author of The Ocean in a Drop China's Change injects timely, original ideas into the world's most important, if confused, debate over how to manage the twin challenges of anaemic economic growth and accelerating global disruption. Change is the cry from the US to Europe, Asia to Australasia. The snag is the West has no playbook to help. China however, to regain control of its future, has regularly reinvented itself by understanding change's nature through traditional philosophy. This book argues it is time to "Look at China" but stresses China's approach to managing change only supplies the process not individual policies: the how not the what. Policies have to be created locally. In managing change, traditional thought is China's X-Factor, the key to China's record-breaking economic transformation. To grasp this, China's Change provides an understanding of China's past, present and future through its philosophy, history, economics, business, politics, prospects and impact in a way that no other book has done. Two big global questions are answered. Can other countries, firms and individuals find paths out of their dim twilight by adapting China's change process? Can China continue to create one-third of world growth, more than the US, EU and Japan combined, to help cure the last decade's global economic malaise? China's roadmap for change enables anyone to navigate growing global disruption. Ironically China's process is built on such ignored-in-the-West ideas as long-term thinking, clear priorities, gradualism and non-ideological pragmatism that earlier powered two centuries of Western economic dominance. If the West and rest of Asia learn from China to manage change, the next global surprise could be another turning of the tables. There is no end to history, only more turns of the wheel: for now China's Change is again the Greatest Show on Earth.