我們真的認識中國嗎？近年來，關於中國的傳聞甚囂塵上，孰真孰假？

中國的共產主義已死。「中國企業」買下全世界。中國人都是模仿家。中國是個環境惡棍。中國將殖民非洲。毛澤東是頭野獸。共產主義制度的末日將至。二十一世紀是中國的天下。這些無不是近年來西方學者爭辯的問題。

身為中國分析家暨《關於中國的49個迷思》(49 Myths about China)作者Marte Kjær Galtung和Stig Stenslie，彙整我們對於中國的過去、現在、未來的49個廣泛口耳相傳的迷思，並根據他們多年的觀察與分析，衡量這些迷思是真實或是虛構。

兩位作者引領我們走一趟中國，展開一場極具啟發性和娛樂性的走訪，揭露關於中國的文化、社會、政治、經濟的真貌。在這些廣傳的迷思中，部份是中國人自己刻意強化的錯誤印象，但是絕大多數都是關乎西方人如何看待他們自己。

《關於中國的49個迷思》運用睿智的觀察，解讀中國的一切，也道出我們對於一個增強的權力的誤解。

 

Marte Kjær Galtung is a China analyst at the Norwegian Defence Staff. She has previously worked on China with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; as a cultural attaché at the Norwegian embassy in Beijing, and subsequently on the Norwegian government’s China strategy. She is the author of China: People, History, Politics, and Culture.

Stig Stenslie is head of the Asia Branch of the Norwegian Defence Staff. He has been visiting scholar at, among others, the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, National University in Singapore, and Columbia University in New York. He is the author of several books on contemporary China and the Middle East, most recently Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia: The Challenge of Succession and Stability and Change in the Modern Middle East.