中國巨變：1978-2008（英文版）

　　The ascent of China's economy over the past thirty years may be one of the moreremarkable happenings in human history. Few understand it. Those outside Chinaconsider the massive changes a mystery. Those inside China have been challengedwith taking more than 1.3 billion people from an agrarian existence into the modernworld， and in the face of complex economics involving extreme conflicts of interest.Nobody ever did it before; nobody will ever do it again. Given the convulsive upheavalsrequired， the difficulty of the task has been， and remains， hard to imagine.This book describes those upheavals and that process over the years from 1978 to2008. It represents a remarkable achievement in condensing a welter of events andchanges down to the bare essentials. In summing up a period of history， it also servesas a query about what is to come next. Where are the convulsive changes leading， notonly for China， but for the world.Every stretch of history has its own internal logic. The reader of this book may beconfronted with a more \real\ China than he has known before. Under the surfaceripples， diverging streams， uneven tumult， he may discern the middle of the channel，that greater internal logic at work. It represents the flow of a people， quite an ancientnation of people， coursing with all vigor， all courage， all hope， toward an uncertainfuture.

　　Wu Xiao Bo was born in 1968，A graduate of the School of Journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai，he is both a journalist and a publisher in the fields of business，finance，and economics. He ispublisher of the"Blue Lion" imprint of business titles.Formwely a visiting scholar at Harvard Univwesity，he currently works at the newspaper cakked the Oiriental Morning Post. His publications include Great Failures， Great Failures ll，Passing Through a Cornfield，Extremly Prifutabke，Alarger Fate，and China's Thirty Tumultuous Yeaes，in two volumes.