Author Hugh Peyman explains that long-term thinking and the ability to adapt to change has helped China stay ahead of the curve Some five years ago, in London, I was asked how China had managed to sustain such high long-term growth and transformation. Frankly, I was stumped. I have spent over four decades in Asia, the last 16 years living in China, and no one had ever asked me that …
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Your BBC Radio 4 series, Chinese Characters, has been very popular. How did you select which characters to feature and what were your criteria when choosing them? Thank you! Well, it was very much a personal choice, but I wanted to fulfil certain criteria. First, I wanted to give more substance to names that might be known to a British public, such as Confucius or Mao, but whose details aren’t …