A China Story: From Peip’ing to Beijing

I noticed James Hendry’s A China Story on Amazon the other day. No idea if it’s any good or not as haven’t had a chance to read yet but I did, of course, note the Frank “Pinkie” Dorn 1935 map of Peking on the cover which I’ve been known to use myself!

James Hendry is a development economist with a doctorate from Columbia University. Early in his career he was a member of the Michigan State University Advisory Group in Viet Nam, from which came a book, “The Small World of Khanh Hau,” which analyzes the economy of a village in the Mekong Delta. He subsequently became a member of the Harvard Advisory Group in Pakistan, serving as advisor on agricultural planning for the then Provincial Government of East Pakistan, now the independent nation of Bangladesh. On the basis of this experience he was recruited by the World Bank where he was associated with Bank lending efforts in the agricultural sector of countries in North Africa, Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia. His end-of-career position with the Bank was as its Ombudsman, during which time he also served on the Board of Directors of the Corporate Ombudsman Association.