Jonathan Fenby
Praise for The Penguin History of Modern China
His book is a miracle of thoroughness, truthfulness and readability - the perfect primer for a time when China is about to enter all our lives
Sunday Telegraph
Jonathan Fenby's ... illuminating book [is] the first major history that looks at the country with the eyes of the 21st century rather than the 20th
Rana Mitter, FT
[It] reads like a novel and is never less than thoughtful and compassionate for the fate of a much-abused people ... [Fenby has] a journalist's eye for telling detail
Herald
His book is a miracle of thoroughness, truthfulness and readability - the perfect primer for a time when China is about to enter all our lives
Sunday Telegraph
Jonathan Fenby's ... illuminating book [is] the first major history that looks at the country with the eyes of the 21st century rather than the 20th
Rana Mitter, FT
[It] reads like a novel and is never less than thoughtful and compassionate for the fate of a much-abused people ... [Fenby has] a journalist's eye for telling detail
Herald
His book is a miracle of thoroughness, truthfulness and readability - the perfect primer for a time when China is about to enter all our lives
Sunday Telegraph
Jonathan Fenby's ... illuminating book [is] the first major history that looks at the country with the eyes of the 21st century rather than the 20th
Rana Mitter, FT
[It] reads like a novel and is never less than thoughtful and compassionate for the fate of a much-abused people ... [Fenby has] a journalist's eye for telling detail
Herald