国内英语资讯:Discover China: Chinas change, the greatest show on earth: British observer_时事

国内英语资讯:Discover China: Chinas change, the greatest show on earth: British observer

"China" became a word that Peyman has never parted with ever since.

"China's scale, speed and impact have been literally uNPRecedented, with 1.4 billion people creating the fastest ever prolonged economic spurt," Peyman wrote 40 years later in the preface of his book "China's Change: The Greatest Show on Earth," with its simplified Chinese version recently published in Beijing.

Peyman's "first encounter" with China came in 1970 when he went to Zambia as an exchange student at the age of 18 before going to Oxford.

The eye-opening experiences and awakenings in Africa intrigued him to co-author a book on the China-built Tanzania-Zambia Railway.

Peyman married a Fujian-born Chinese banker in Hong Kong in 1979 and started his new career as an investment analyst two years later.

"By 2001, it was clear to me that China would become the next big emerging market, and in fact, the biggest of all time," Peyman said. So he moved his Singapore-based firm to Shanghai.

"I could experience what was happening on the ground first hand, providing insights to answer questions posed by fund managers," he said.

Peyman used to have a hard time trying to understand some of the things his wife said and did, which forced him to dig deeper into the realm of Chinese thinking, history and philosophy.

After reading Confucius, Mencius and strategists like Sun Tzu in translation, as well as scholars' official commentaries on them, he realized the profound influence that traditional Chinese philosophy had on how the modern country manages and develops its economy.