The New China

这本书最耐人寻味的，或许不在它如何为中国经济辩护，而在于它暴露了一代人的认知局限。作者金韵如出身精英家庭、14岁出国、哈佛背景，其人生路径与中国八零后精英高度重合；而她的视角，既不被普通外国人完全采信，也与中国本土读者的体感存在落差。读者普遍感到：书中对老龄化的讨论只看到“生产者”而忽略“消费者”，对外贸困境将责任归咎于逆全球化而回避结构性症结，甚至对中国政经的理解仍停留在2000—2010年的刻度。它适合想了解“中国精英如何自我讲述”的外国读者，却很难给资深国内读者提供新知。翻过之后，你得到的不是答案，而是一个值得追问的问题：当叙事者本身就是被叙述现象的一部分，这份自信究竟来自洞察，还是出身？

Keyu Jin is a professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a non-executive board member of the luxury conglomerate Richemont. She is an eminent advisor to the UNDP, and has worked with the World Bank, the IMF, and the China Banking Regulatory Commission on fintech in the past. Jin was born and raised in Beijing, China, and attended high school and college in the United States. She holds a BA, MA, and PhD in economics from Harvard University, and resides in Beijing and London.