Kerry Brown is the Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College London and Associate for Chinese Affairs at Chatham House. With 30 years experience of life in China, she has worked in education, business and government, including a term as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing. She writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, The Diplomat and Foreign Affairs, as well as for many international and Chinese media outlets. She is the Amazon-bestselling author of CEO China (I.B.Tauris, 2016) andThe New Emperors (I.B.Tauris, 2014). His other books include Contemporary China (2012), Friends and Enemies: The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China (with Will Hutton, 2009) and Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century (with Jonathan Fenby, 2007).
As an overview into the binds and struggles of Chinese foreign policy, China's World is excellent. It is clear, well organized if perhaps slightly too schematic, detailed without being onerous, and sports an impressively broad understanding of a remarkably complex field. --Los Angeles Review of Books (12/01/2017) .. .Rarely falling prey to jargon and written in a skilled and approachable style, the book succeeds in making a complex topic accessible to a broad audience. While never providing an overarching answer, Brown shows that the response to the question What does China want? may depend on who is asking. --Publishers Weekly (10/02/2017)