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Praise for The China Trilogy: "Jeff J. Brown's dispatches are a bracing antidote to the western media's groupthink on China." John Pilger, award winning film directorjohnpilger.com/ "Few voices can match Jeff J Brown when it comes to explaining China to foreigners, especially Americans, their minds still very much imprisoned by their own country's gargantuan propaganda machine. An Okie by birth, Brown, a longtime resident of China, and a spellbinding narrator, is an inspiring example of personal transformation, from firm believer in America's exceptionalist religion, to authoritative critic of its policies and multitude of self-serving myths. His China trilogy is simply indispensable to fully understand the re-emergence of this great nation,whose values represent an auspicious turning point for humanity." Patrice Greanville, Editor, The Greanville Postgreanvillepost.com "Jeff J. Brown's amazing trilogy about China is a mus tread for anyone wanting to learn something about the true China. It is very different from the China described by the mainstream media and by Western politicians. China is Communist, Dammit! is particularly useful as a reference for understanding modern Chinese society." Peter Man,author of The Unconquered: Childrenof the Divine Fire stone-man.weebly.com "Jeff has done a great job in countering the unrelenting lies and hatred against China (20% of humanity) by the agenda-based presstitutes. His work is VERY IMPORTANT for the survival of humanity in the 21st century. If the learning of history is of any benefit to humanity, I hope that the warmonger elitists in the West would realise that the rise and fall of a civilisation is an inevitable process: the Roman Empire did not last forever, the Crusaders were unable to hold on to Jerusalem, Spain was unable to prevent the rise of Britain, and Britain was unable to prevent the independence of America. 21stcentury is a nuclear weaponries century, it is a century for cooperation, not confrontation. The war on the Korea peninsula, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan already proven that, the combination of the world's richest countries and advanced military forces failed to crash the will of the weaker people they oppressed. With the help of technology, all weaponries are lethal including those that are belted around the human body. The world has to learn to work towards similarity and accept each other's differences. The behaviour of the crusaders and the colonial masters is no longer workable and acceptable in the 21st century. All nations should learn to trade with each other for raw materials, finished products and services in a fair and mutually beneficial way - not bombs, missiles and economic sanctions. No single nation can solve the problem of global warming without the cooperation of the others. Military aggression did not make the West any safer." Wei Ling Chua, author of Democracy: What the West can learn fromChina and Tiananmen Square "Massacre"? The Power ofWordsvs Silent Evidence outcastjournalist.com China Is Communist Dammit "Of the three books in Jeff J. Brown's China Trilogy, China is Communist,Dammit! is my favorite. I give it to curious (even hostile) friends secure in the knowledge that they'll learn enough about China's history, geography,politics, governance, art and society to see through the nonsense we read everyday in our media. China is Communist, Dammit! is solace for the socialist soul in time of need and a bracing defense of a country that is resuming world leadership after a - by its standards - brief break of two hundred years.Highly recommended, dammit!" Godfree Roberts, author of HOW CHINA WORKS- And Why It's Winning
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"Jeff J. Brown has done a masterful job, creating a highly readable, marvelously engaging, truly exciting opus, at the same time maintaining the highest level of scholarship. Much of what the reader will discover here will be uncomfortable, most of it will be unfamiliar. Thanks to the Western disinformation machine of the U.S. Deep State with full complicity of corporate media the national conversation is saturated with malignant,vitriolic propaganda, the truth nowhere to be found. So if you are fed up with self-serving lies of the capitalist neoliberal establishment and looking for a reality-based,factually-objective, thoroughly-researched, unassailably accurate portrayal of China, and the prospects it offers humankind for not just surviving the current raft of existential challenges, but fora world built on cooperation, mutual trust, and reciprocal advantage,there is no comparable work available today. Read Big Red Book on China,then keep it handy. It will be one of your most valuable reference books for many years to come." John Rachel, author of The Peace Dividend and An Unlikely Truth
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"China is serious business....Thankfully, today we can finally access authors like Jeff J. Brown, who have compiled superb, comprehensive scholarship to allow today's readers to grant China the seriousness and honesty it deserves. And the John K. Fairbank's of the Western world are everywhere else...providing copy and rubber-stamping diplomas." Ramin Mazaheri
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"Jeff Brown has written a gorgeous text. His prose is lucid, clear, humane and approachable. He writes with the conviction of a convert and the generosity of a saint, though he does not pull punches. He attacks the vicious propaganda lies that have enveloped modern China since its founding in 1949 and beyond, taking his reader back to ancient times to assess the modern day import of Confucianism, the Silk Roads, and the Heavenly Mandate. This book is a primer on many fronts, including Chinese governance, philosophy, history and art. Yet it is also a courageous telling of the author's own decoupling from the very lies of which he has the proper grace and temerity to forewarn his reader. For those who find themselves irritated and downright suspicious of the bulk of Western treatments of China, China is Communist Dammit! is the veritable push-off point for understanding China in the English language--from a chastened English-language speaker to boot." Dr. Amir Khan, Associate Professor of English, Dalian Maritime University; Managing editor, Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies; Author, Comedies of Nihilism "'China Is Communist Dammit - Dawn of the Red Dynasty' is perhaps the best book written about this country in years. Jeff Brown produced a masterpiece, and many more will undoubtedly follow!" Andre Vltchek andrevltchek.weebly.com China Rising I just finished Jeff J. Brown's insightful book, 'China Rising'. I found it fluid and forthright . . .Bravo!" James Bradley(jamesbradley.com/), author of "The China Mirage"(barnesandnoble.com/w/the-china-mirage-jamesbradley/1118620112?ean=9780316196666#/) and"Flags of Our Fathers" (barnesandnoble.com/w/flags-of-our-fathers-james-bradley/1100303084?ean=9780553384154#/). "Sooner or later, certainly while you are deep into this book, say when you reach the part that explains what makes Xi Jinping run, you gotta ask yourself a question: why should I rely on a gaggle of pompous, redundant, ideologically impaired U.S. scholars self-billed as China 'experts', when I can get my Sino-kicks with Jeff?" Pepe Escobar(atimes.com/writer/pepe-escobar/), author of "2030"(amazon.com/2030-Pepe-Escobar/dp/1608880354) and "Empire of Chaos"(amazon.com/Empire-Chaos-Pepe-Escobar/dp/1608881644)
From the Back Cover
PRAISE FOR THE CHINA TRILOGY
"Jeff J. Brown's dispatches are abracing antidote to the western media's groupthink on China." --- John Pilger
"I just finished Jeff J. Brown'sinsightful book, China Rising. I found it fluid and forthright .. . Bravo!" --- James Bradley
"Why should I rely on a gaggle ofpompous, redundant, ideologically impaired U.S. scholars self-billed as China'experts', when I can get my Sino-kicks with Jeff?" --- Pepe Escobar
About the Author
Jeff J. Brown is the author of 44 Days Backpacking in China (2013), Doctor WriteRead's Treasure Troveto Great English(2016). Punto Press releasedChina Rising - Capitalist Road, Socialist Destinations (2016). For Badak Merah, Jeff authored China Is Communist, Dammit!- Dawn of the Red Dynasty (2017) and it has been updated as BIG RedBook on China (2020). Jeff writes regularly for The Saker and is a contributing editor for the The Greanville Post. Jeffinterviews and podcasts on his own program,China Rising Radio Sinoland, which is available on SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio, iTunes and YouTube.
In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx,the Bookworm and Capital M Literary Festivals, the Hutong, as well as beingfeatured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, withformer BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at internationalschools in Beijing, Tianjin, as well as at the Beijing Academy of SocialSciences.
Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United States, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University.He went to Brazil while ingraduate school at Purdue University,to seek his fortune, which whet his appetitefor traveling the globe. This helpedinspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 andhe lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europefor the next 21 years. All thewhile, he masteredPortuguese, Arabic, French and Mandarin, while traveling toover 85 countries. He then returned toAmerica for nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010-2019. He currently lives in Thailandwith his wife, where hewrites and writes, while they arelearning the Thai language. Jeff is a dualnational French-American.
Jeff can be reached at jeff@brownlanglois.com, Facebook(facebook.com/44DaysPublishing), Twitter (twitter.com/44_Days)and Wechat/Whatsapp: +86-1382354419
