Author Name:
Dee Knight
Book Title:
Befriending China: People-to-People Peacemaking
Links:
https://DeeKnight.blog
facebook.com/deeknight.author
patreon.com/c/DeeKnight_books_notes_chats
instagram.com/deeknight816/
Description of Your Book:
Befriending China is Gold Winner of the 2025 Nonfiction Book Award from the Nonfiction Writers Association. It offers a compelling account of China’s efforts to foster openness, cross-cultural engagement, and mutual understanding in an era defined by geopolitical tension. Based on three extensive visits to China in 2023 and 2024, Knight blends vivid travel experiences with eye-opening analysis of China’s infrastructure, healthcare advancements, poverty alleviation efforts, cultural richness, and social transformations. The book also delves into diplomatic initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative and the role of multilateral coalitions such as BRICS.
Included are:
• Firsthand travel accounts from multiple regions across China, including Xinjiang, offering perspectives rarely seen in Western media
• Analysis of China’s infrastructure development, healthcare systems, and poverty alleviation programs,
• Exploration of the Belt and Road Initiative, BRICS and other multilateral coalitions reshaping international relations
• Assessment of media narratives and how they shape Western perceptions of China
Do you have a book event or announcement to share?
A Chinese edition of Befriending China will appear in 2026!
Author Bio:
An adviser of Socialist China and member of DSA’s China Working Group, Dee Knight was editor of Amex-Canada, published by US war resisters in Canada, in the 1970s. He was a publishing consultant for the UN Development Programme in the 1990s, and for Nicaragua’s Sandinista newspaper, Barricada, in the 1980s.
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