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Jasper Becker's books emerge from years of living and travelling in and around China.

The Chinese is currently the best-selling introduction to China, its people, government and economy. Its unique overview of China's full social spectrum has won endorsements from Foreign Affairs magazine to  Frommer's Guide to China and the Lonely Planet Guidebook on China.

Becker reports on Asia's most secret corners including North Korea in Rogue Regime and the remote deserts of  Mongolia in The Lost Country.

While Becker's most ground-breaking book, Hungry Ghosts - now a set text in many university courses - looks back at a previously unreported historical phenomenon, his new work looks to the current stage of  China. His latest book looks at the rebuilding of Beijing and implications for Chinese culture and the historical memory of the Chinese.

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