Jeff J. Brown: China Rising & the Project for a New Eurasian Century
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 28 January 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Jeff J. Brown discusses his new book China Rising: Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations and the True Face of Asia’s Enigmatic Colossus. Why is China so interesting? What is the Great Western Firewall? How is the Amerian Empire’s decline enabling China’s rise? What is the Project for a New Eurasian Century? What does the world have to fear from a new Chinese Empire?
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About Jeff J. Brown
Jeff J. Brown is a renowned China expert and geopolitical analyst residing in Beijing. China Rising, Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations, is his latest work, scheduled for publication by Punto Press Publishing in the Spring of 2016. Jeff is also the author of 44 Days (2013), Reflections in Sinoland – Musings and Anecdotes from the Belly of the New Century Beast (summer 2015), and Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). He is currently writing an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, due out later in 2016. Jeff is commissioned to write monthly dispatches for The Saker and The Greanville Post, touching on all things China, and the international political & cultural scene.
Besides these activities, Jeff Brown is a member of The Anthill, a collective of authors who write about China, and also submits articles on Oped News and Firedog Lake. His articles have been published by Paul Craig Roberts, Ron Unz, Alternative News Network and many other websites. He has also been a guest on Press TV, Truth Jihad, Daily Coin, Shadow of Truth, Wall St. for Main St. and KFCF Radio 88.1 in Fresno, California.
His podcasts and interviews can be found on 44 Days Radio Sinoland and heard at SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio and iTunes.
In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm Literary Festival, the Capital M Literary Festival, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at international schools in Beijing and Tianjin.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Jeff Brown on China Rising that Punto Press.com is with us today on the podcast. It's good to have you here, Jeff. |
| 0:19.5 | Thank you. Welcome. Greetings from Beijing, China. |
| 0:23.1 | Greetings from Mexico. Jeff is a geopolitical analyst with a focus on all things China. He has written |
| 0:30.0 | 44 days, reflections in Sino Land, musings, and anecdotes from the belly of the new century |
| 0:34.7 | of beast. And his new book we'll be talking about is China Rising, Capitalist Roads, |
| 0:39.8 | the true face of Asia's enigmatic colossus, among other publications. |
| 0:45.4 | Now, people can check out the biography on your website, which is extensive. |
| 0:49.8 | But you were born and raised in America. |
| 0:51.6 | You joined the Peace Corps, like myself. |
| 0:53.9 | And then you took off into... All right. Yeah, I was in Mongolia. You were in and raised in America. You joined the Peace Corps like myself. And then you took off into... |
| 0:54.8 | All right. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, I was in Mongolia. |
| 0:57.4 | You were in Tunisia, I think, right? |
| 1:00.2 | Yeah, no care. |
| 1:01.1 | And RPCV. |
| 1:02.4 | We're brothers. |
| 1:03.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.0 | And then afterwards, you went to numerous countries. |
| 1:09.7 | You learned numerous languages a bit like myself as well. And in 2010, you went to numerous countries, you learned numerous languages a bit like myself as well. |
| 1:13.3 | And in 2010, you went back to China. |
| 1:16.2 | So could you tell us what was it or what is it about China that attracts you? |
| 1:23.3 | This is a 5,000-year-old civilization. |
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