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冯艾盟先生简介。。。馮艾盟先生簡介

冯艾盟先生简介

曾担任福布斯(Forbes)杂志及英国金融时报编辑的冯艾盟先生,与亚洲经济结缘于1986年。当时,冯艾盟先生随同一支美国高层金融代表团访问中国,并拜会中国领导人邓小平;之后,即开始他对东亚经济长期深入的关注。1987年,冯艾盟先生大胆预言日本泡沫经济的破灭。1995年,在其颇具争议性的《偷袭(Blindside)》一书中,他直指美国将在不留意的当口,对日本加速失去其在高端制造业方面自以为傲的优势。美国当代著名经济学家加尔布雷思(J.K. Galbraith)及美国前总统克林顿(Bill Clinton)皆对该书赞誉有加。

冯艾盟先生在其1999年所著──《硬产业万岁!为何是制造业、而非信息经济产业,是导向未来繁荣的关键》一书中,更预期美国互联网企业于2000年进入发展的泡沬时代。而目前,当位于华盛顿的决策者及智库人士普遍认为,不论在经济、政治的形式或心态上,中国都将逐渐向西方价值靠拢时,冯艾盟先生则于其2008年新书中──《龙威:在未来中国霸权下美国的命运》,对上述这些传统看法发出战帖。冯艾盟先生的著书曾分别入选美国商业周刊、亚马逊网络书店年度十大商业书籍,同时获美国参议院引述并纳入官方记录。

馮艾盟先生簡介

曾擔任富比士(Forbes)雜誌及英國金融時報編輯的馮艾盟先生,與亞洲經濟結緣於1986年。當時,馮艾盟先生隨同一支美國高層金融代表團訪問中國,並拜會中國領導人鄧小平;之後,即開始他對東亞經濟長期深入的關注。1987年,馮艾盟先生大膽預言日本泡沫經濟的破滅。1995年,在其頗具爭議性的《偷襲(Blindside)》一書中,他直指美國將在不留意的當口,對日本加速失去其在高端製造業方面自以為傲的優勢。美國當代著名經濟學家加爾布雷思(J.K. Galbraith)及美國前總統柯林頓(Bill Clinton)皆對該書讚譽有加。

馮艾盟先生在其1999年所著──《硬產業萬歲!為何是製造業、而非資訊經濟產業,是導向未來繁榮的關鍵》一書中,更預期美國網際網路企業於2000年進入發展的泡沬時代。而目前,當位於華盛頓的決策者及智庫人士普遍認為,不論在經濟、政治的形式或心態上,中國都將逐漸向西方價值靠攏時,馮艾盟先生則于其2008年新書中──《龍威:在未來中國霸權下美國的命運》,對上述這些傳統看法發出戰帖。馮艾盟先生的著書曾分別入選美國商業週刊、亞馬遜網路書店年度十大商業書籍,同時獲美國參議院引述並納入官方記錄。

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エーモン・フィングルトン略歴

フォーブス、ファイナンシャルタイムズの元編集者。1986年に中国の最高指導者、鄧小平に米国の金融関係代表団の一員として会見して以来東アジアの経済を注視してきた。翌年1987年には東京の金融危機を予告し、さらに1995年にはその著書「見えない繁栄システム」で米国はハイテク製造業分野で過去のリーダーシップを日本にかなりのスピードで失いつつあるという議論の的となる分析をおこない、J.K.ガルブレイス、ビル・クリントンに賞賛された。

1999年に出版された「製造業が国を救う」では2000年の米国におけるインターネット関連株の暴落を予告した。2008年出版の「ドラゴンの喉元へ—来るべき中国覇権時代のアメリカの運命」では中国は西側の経済、政治形態に近づきつつあるというワシントンの政策立案者やシンクタンクのアナリストに見られる従来の考え方に強い反論を展開している。

彼の著書はビジネスウイークやAmazon.comなどでその年のビジネス分野のベスト10に選ばれ、また米国上院の議事録にも記載されている。

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Fingleton vs. China: The empire strikes back

East Asian officials don’t take it lying down when a foreign correspondent investigates their guilty secrets.

Below is an article I wrote for the International Herald Tribune‘s editorial page on the seventieth anniversary of the Nanking Massacre. The article noted not only that the victims and their heirs have never been compensated but that Beijing has actually cooperated with Tokyo in this policy (among other things, as I point out in my new book In the Jaws of the Dragon, Beijing has blocked victims from bringing suit in international courts). As someone who in 1995 broke a long-standing taboo about writing about Japan’s extraordinarily parsimonious war reparations policy, I knew that retribution would come quickly (discussion of Japan’s war reparations policy is to East Asian studies roughly what the third rail is to the New York subway). I was, however, unprepared for the brazenness with which vengeance would be administered. It took the form of two letters to the editor suggesting completely falsely that I held that Japan had not committed any war-time atrocities. The letter writers also preposterously suggested I had advocated that references to the Nanking massacre be deleted from school textbooks. The Herald Tribune, in its innocence, published these letters without checking either what I had written or whether the writers of the letters were legitimate (in fact they have proved untraceable). Basically I was framed. Yet in reality not only are my true views the opposite of those attributed to me but this was obvious from my article, which among other things described the Nanking massacre as “one of the worst atrocities in military history.”

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Jaws: A note for books editors and reviewers

Broken links at Amazon are damaging my new book’s prospects.

[EF note as of 2010: The relevant links were subsequently established but only after the launch period of my new book had passed.]

The prescience of my previous book In Praise of Hard Industries is a major asset as I ask for a hearing for the rather controversial analysis in In the Jaws of the Dragon. Unfortunately Hard Industries is almost unfindable at Amazon.

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REVISED PRESS RELEASE: In the Jaws of the Dragon

February 26, 2008

REVISED PRESS RELEASE: In the Jaws of the Dragon

Publication Date: March 4, 2008

Contact: Joe Rinaldi, Director of Publicity, Thomas Dunne Books
646-307-5565 or [email protected]

Barbara Monteiro, Monteiro & Company
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STEP ASIDE, TOM FRIEDMAN
A fact-based wake-up call to complacent China trade optimists

IN THE JAWS OF THE DRAGON

America’s Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Hegemony

By Eamonn Fingleton

“We borrow from the Chinese to buy oil from the Saudis. That’s not a
winning strategy.” So says Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton in one of her favorite cracks against the Bush administration.

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Piranhas in the Amazon system

Authors have always taken on vested interests. Now vested interests have found a new way to strike back.

The unsuspecting American public assumes that the rise of online bookstores like Amazon.com has powerfully served the cause of truth.  Not necessarily.

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America’s creativity conceit

One of the biggest misconceptions in the American trade debate is the idea that America can count on superior creativity to stay ahead of the crowd. [Article as published in the American Conservative on November 21, 2007.]

TOKYO. Almost everything the Apple computer company sells these days comes with this memorable statement of origin: “Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in China.” The implication is obvious: a few brilliantly creative, latte-quaffing, hybrid-driving Americans did the real work, while low-skilled Chinese assembly workers, laboring in serf-like conditions and earning a few dollars a day, meekly did the rest.

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A quiet anniversary: The Nanking Massacre remembered — and forgotten

All conventional wisdom to the contrary, Japan and China cooperate closely in key policies, most notably trade. In return for economic favors from Tokyo, Beijing has never pursued claims for reparations over Japan’s aggression of the 1930s and early 1940s. It has even blocked victims of the Nanking massacre suing Tokyo in international courts. [Article as published on the editorial page of the International Herald Tribune.]

NANJING: For observers of Sino-Japanese relations the big news in the past week has been that there has been no news. Although last Thursday marked the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the notorious Nanking massacre, political activists in both Japan and China have been notable – so far at least – for their restraint.

Given that the massacre, which began on Dec. 13, 1937, and continued for six weeks, was one of the worst atrocities in military history, the Chinese people would be forgiven for expressing their feelings in less muted terms. On conservative estimates, at least 150,000 people were annihilated in what was then the Chinese capital of Nanking (the city now known as Nanjing) and in many cases their deaths took place in circumstances of almost unbelievable cruelty and depravity.

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The untold story of Japan’s war compensation record

Although it is well known that the Japanese media extensively censor themselves, foreign correspondents in Tokyo are often almost as hesitant to tell the whole truth. Here is the full story on one important aspect of Japanese policy that has long been the subject of particularly pervasive self-censorship both inside and outside Japan.  [Article as published in the American Prospect, May 3 2006.]

TOKYO. In all the public bickering recently between Japan and China, one fact has had remarkably little attention: Japan’s continuing refusal to pay compensation to victims of its militarist-era brutality.

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Essay: East Asian Alliance

Superficial and largely theatrical bickering notwithstanding, Tokyo and Beijing are joined in a tacit East Asian alliance. (This article was first published in the London-based magazine Prospect in May 2004.)

China is now widely seen as the coming superpower. But few even among the
west’s China-watchers understand quite how fast this geopolitical freight train
is approaching. Moreover, most western observers assume that China’s ambitions
are being opposed by its east Asian rival, Japan. In the words of the Economist,
Japan is “standing in the way” of China’s superpower ambitions. As the Japanese
economy is still more than three times larger than China’s, Japan’s supposed
hostility has tended to tranquilise western concerns about the dragon’s rise.

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