Ben Chu is the Economics Editor of the INDEPENDENT. He was born and brought up in Manchester, and studied modern history at Jesus College, Oxford. CHINESE WHISPERS is his first book.
Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions - or whispers - to let in light on a heterogenous nation about which it is impossible to generalise - NEW STATESMAN Forget Confucius, [Chu says]: China's thinking is modern, not ancient - THE TIMES