The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World Is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China

摘要

The book, The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World Is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China is a welcomed addition to a literature that links the Middle East to China, with the potential to teach China experts about the Middle East and vice versa. The author Ben Simpfendorfer, Chief China Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong, is well positioned to analyze the intersection of both regions as he has lived and worked in both China and various countries in the Middle East, speaks both Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, accessing popular and academic literature in multiple languages. The information base of the book is also partly obtained through interviews and is written in a readable and accessible way.