“Keyu Jin is a brilliant thinker.” —Tony Blair former prime minster of the United Kingdom A
myth-dispelling comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy.
China's economy has been booming for decades now. A formidable and emerging power on the world
stage the China that most Americans picture is only a rough sketch based on American news
coverage policy and ways of understanding. Enter Keyu Jin: a world-renowned economist who
was born in China educated in the U.S. and is now a tenured professor at the London School of
Economics. A person fluent in both Eastern and Western cultures and a voice of the new
generation of Chinese who represent a radical break from the past Jin is uniquely poised to
explain how China became the most successful economic story of our time as it has shifted from
primarily state-owned enterprise to an economy that is thriving in entrepreneurship and
participation in the global economy. China’s economic realm is colorful and lively filled
with paradoxes and conundrums and Jin believes that by understanding the Chinese model the
people the culture and history in its true perspective one can reconcile what may appear to
be contradictions to the Western eye. What follows is an illuminating account of a burgeoning
world power its past and its potential future.
