“The more I come to China, the more I become frustrated with the simplistic, naive and stereotyped view of China when I go back to the United States,” said Robert Lawrence Kuhn, author of the book “The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin.”
Many Westerners do not know much about China, viewing the current China as it was 25 or 30 years ago, said Kuhn when talking about his book on Jiang with Chinese readers at the on-going 15th National Book Fair of China in Tianjin, a port city in north China.
In the eyes of many westerners, he said, China is either backward or gloomy — totally different from the China he has seen with his own eyes.
