Kynge

James Kynge, author of one of the best recent accounts of the rise of China, pours cold water on the idea that Deng had some sort of master plan for economic reform in 1978.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

James Kynge, author of one of the best recent accounts of the rise of China, pours cold water on the idea that Deng had some sort of master plan for economic reform in 1978.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

Kynge isn't entirely enthusiastic about the impact that China's rapid growth and industrialization has had on the country and the world, but he's also not a sinophobe.

Boing Boing 2008

As the author James Kynge put it: Chinese history is very much less the story of multiplication than of long division.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Kynge, a Financial Times correspondent who went to university in China, is an extremely entertaining writer who has a knack for spotting the exactly perfect little anecdote from his gigantic repertoire to illustrate the many fascinating points he makes about the rise of China and the perils it faces now.

Boing Boing 2008

Kynge does an admirable job of capturing the sweep and scale of the changes racing across China, and when I was done, I found myself holding a book with dozens of dogeared pages and underlined passages I wanted to return to later as I work on my next novel, which is partly set in China.

Boing Boing 2008

To call the event a "pro-democracy" or "democracy" movement has always seemed an oversimplification to some analysts (myself included), and Kynge does a particularly good job of explaining its limitations.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Illuminating and Misleading Takes on China 20 Years Since Tiananmen 2010

As the author James Kynge put it: Chinese history is very much less the story of multiplication than of long division.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

To call the event a "pro-democracy" or "democracy" movement has always seemed an oversimplification to some analysts (myself included), and Kynge does a particularly good job of explaining its limitations.

Illuminating and Misleading Takes on China 20 Years Since Tiananmen 2010

As the author James Kynge put it: Chinese history is very much less the story of multiplication than of long division.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010