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Author of In the Jaws of the Dragon; Unsustainable; In Praise of Hard Industries; Blindside; and the Penguin Money Book
Thirty Years of Prescience
A retrospective on Fingleton's record as a commentator
About In the Jaws of the Dragon
A 2008 book in which Fingleton challenges the Washington view that China is converging to Western values
About In Praise of Hard Industries
Published in 1999 and subtitled Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity, this was Fingleton's challenge to America's exaggerated hopes for the New Economy
About Blindside
Fingleton's controversial 1995 book on why the Japanese economic system is not capitalism -- and how "basket case" Japan secretly seized the lead in advanced manufacturing when Washington wasn't looking
About Unsustainable.org
Named for the headline over an article Fingleton published in the American Prospect in 2000, Unsustainable.org was founded in 2001 as the Internet's first site on America's trade disaster
Amazon.com on Hard Industries
Amazon's business editor named Hard Industries one of the ten best books of 1999
Business Week on Blindside
One of the best books of the year
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Navigating Amazon's problematical catalog
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Nanking: A Sequel to a Sequel to a Sequel

 

See below a correction that appeared in the print edition of the  International Herald Tribune on March 17, 2008. The correction also appeared for a time at the newspaper's website IHT.com but as of today (April 3, 2008) it seems to have been deleted. Getting the truth out about East Asian affairs has never been easy but rarely has it been as difficult as this. EF

 

EDITOR'S NOTE PUBLISHED IN THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

Monday, March 17, 2008

Two letters published in the IHT on Dec. 21 wrongly portrayed the views
presented in an article by Eamonn Fingleton, ''A quiet anniversary: The rape of
Nanking'' (Views, Dec. 18). The article described how the anniversary of the
Nanking massacre was being marked in China. It did not deny that Imperial Japan
had committed atrocities nor did it suggest that information about the massacre
should not be taught in Japanese schools.

 

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