James Kynge is the editor of China Confidential, a research service of the Financial Times

Financial Times

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. He is a recipient of several journalism

Journalism

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 awards. His first book China Shakes The World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future - and the Challenge for America describes the development of China as a superpower

Superpower

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; it has been translated into 19 languages. In won the 2006 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

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Kynge spent over two decades as a journalist in Asia, initially for Reuters

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 and then as China Bureau Chief for the Financial Times between 1998 and 2005. He covered many of the events during this time - including the Japanese deflation, the Tiananmen Square massacre, the rise to nationhood of the five former Soviet central Asia

Central Asia

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n republics in the early 1990s, the Asian financial crisis of 1997, and China's reform and opening since 1998.

Kynge speaks fluent Mandarin

Standard Mandarin

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, and is a regular commentator on Chinese and Asian issues for media outlets including NPR

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, CNN

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 and the BBC

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. He lives in Beijing

Beijing

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, is married and has three children.

External links

• Review of China Shakes The World in the Central European University
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  Journal of Political Science