Jonathan Clements is visiting professor at Xi an Jiaotong University in China. He is the author of many books, including Modern China: All That Matters and An Armchair Traveller s History of the Silk Road.
"""If New York and London dominated the global imagination in the twentieth century, Beijing is already in the process of usurping them in the twenty first. An extraordinarily exciting city, possessed of enormous optimism and expectation, it has a long, fascinating and complex history. Jonathan Clements unpeels the onion that is Beijing and in a highly readable and informative book gives us a wonderful glimpse of the history of a compelling city.""--Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the World"