Chan
Koonchung ...

Born in Shanghai, raised in Hong Kong and now living in Beijing, Chan Koonchung was a reporter at an English newspaper in Hong Kong before he founded the influential magazine City in 1976, where he was Chief Editor and then Publisher for twenty three years. He is also a screenwriter and film producer of both Chinese and English-language films, a co-founder of the Hong Kong environmental group Green Power and a board member of Greenpeace International from 2008 to 2011. He recently founded the NGO, Minjian International, which connects Chinese public intellectuals with their counterparts in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa. The Fat Years is his first book, a portrait of China in 2013, when capitalism in the West has self-destructed, and a sinister cheerfulness has possessed the Chinese nation. Sure to cause some controversy in his native state.

Watch Chan Koonchung in interview with Jeremy Goldkorn, discussing The Fat Years here.