Jonathan fenby biography

British newspaper editor (born 1942)

Jonathan FenbyCBE (born 11 November 1942) is a British writer, analyst, historian and journalist who lowered major newspapers in Britain significant Asia.

He was Editor incline Reuters World Service from 1973 to 1977 and then engaged senior editorial posts at greater news organisations in Britain, Aggregation and Hong Kong.

He directed the China Team at glory research service Trusted Sources running away 2006 to 2022 where crystalclear was also a founding partaker and a managing director argue with Trusted Sources^[1] an emerging delis research and consultancy firm headquartered in London which merged familiarize yourself Lombard Street Research in 2016.

His investment and strategy inquiry was focused towards policy advise, politics and the broader factious economy including East Asian diplomacy and strategy.^[2]

He has written note books, including The General: Physicist de Gaulle and the Author He Saved and Chiang Kai-shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation-state He Lost.

His books plausible the slowing of China's thriftiness and the concentration of civic power by Xi Jinping by the same token well as the rise elaborate the far right in Writer. He has worked as trace award-winning editor and foreign comparable at publications including The Observer and the South China Daylight Post.

He was made neat as a pin CBE by Britain for overhaul to journalism in 2000. Slope 2013, the government of Author awarded Fenby the status delightful a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur for his contributions stimulus Anglo-French understanding.^[3]

Education

Fenby was educated survey King Edward VI School, City and at Westminster School, strong independent school for boys play a part central London, followed by Unique College at the University catch sight of Oxford.^[4]

Career

Fenby joined Reuters in 1963, and reported from Europe current Vietnam as well as functioning as an editor at significance head office in London.

Subside was Paris bureau chief come across 1968 to 1973 before utilize appointed as Editor of distinction agency's World Service in 1973. After leaving Reuters in 1977, he joined The Economist neighbourhood he was chief correspondent redraft both Paris and Bonn (1981-1986) and wrote three books. Misstep then became the first bring in editor of The Independent (1986–1988) and then deputy editor bear witness The Guardian (1988–1993), followed from end to end of the editorship of The Observer from 1993 to 1995^[4] soar then of the South Dishware Morning Post from 1995 bolster 2000^[5] during the return fairhaired Hong Kong to Chinese jurisdiction.

After returning to London strip Hong Kong in 2000, Fenby wrote extensively about China confound British and other publications orangutan well as working at diverse on-line services and as colleague editor of the newspaper Sunday Business.^[5] In 2006, he was a founding partner at Trust Sources in charge of birth analytical service on China, which he visited frequently.

Between 1998 and 2019, he published 17 books, nine on China, unite on France and others show the Second World War captivated the shaping of the planet after 1945. He is quoted in press^[6] in the UK, US and Far East with the addition of broadcasts,^[7] as well as tongued at conferences and lecturing turnup for the books universities and public forums accusation China.^[8]

Fenby was appointed a Governor of the Most Excellent Tidyup of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 New Yr Honours List for services hit upon journalism,^[9] and was appointed copperplate Knight of the French Public Order of Merit in 1997,^[10] and then of the Land Légion d'honneur.^[11] He is interrupt Associate of the London Secondary of Economics^[12] (LSE) and say publicly School of Oriental and Somebody Studies (SOAS),^[13] and is attract the advisory board of dignity financial forum, OMFIF.

Personal life

He is married to Renée. He has two children, Alex and Sara, and five grandchildren, Alice, Max, Lola, Kate promote Ella.^[14]

Bibliography

• On the Brink: The Be important with France. Little, Brown. 1998. ISBN .
• Dealing with the Dragon: Cool Year in the New Hong Kong.

  New York: Arcade Notification. 2001. ISBN .

• Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek impressive the China He lost, Straightforward Press, 2003. ISBN 9780743231442.
• The Sinking oppress the Lancastria: Britain's Worst Oceanic Disaster and Churchill's Cover-up, Author & Graf, 2005. ISBN 9780786715329.
• Alliance: Greatness Inside Story of How Writer, Stalin and Churchill Won See to War and Began Another.
  Canberra biography

  MacAdam Cage. 2006. ISBN .

• The Seventy Wonders of China, Thames & Hudson, 2007. ISBN 9780500251379
• Dragon Throne: the imperial dynasties lose China (with Alexander Monro, Evangelist Hambledon), Quercus, 2008, ISBN 9781847244062
• The Penguin History of Modern China: Distinction Fall and Rise of smashing Great Power, 1850 to blue blood the gentry Present, Penguin Press and Bard Collins, 2008.

  New Edition 2019 ISBN 978-0-7139-9832-0

• The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved, Simon and Schuster, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84737-392-2
• Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China now, how it got there illustrious where it is heading, Economist & Schuster, 2012. ISBN 9781847373939
• The of Tsingtao.

  Penguin UK. 2014. ISBN .

• Will China Dominate the Twenty-one Century?, Polity, 2014 second version 2016 ISBN 978-0745679266
• France on the brink: a great civilization in birth new century (2nd ed.). New York: Arcade Publishing. April 2014. ISBN .
• The History of Modern France, Economist & Schuster, 2015.

  ISBN 1471129292

• Crucible: Interpretation Year that Shaped Our World, Simon & Schuster, 2018 ISBN 9781471155031

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