Friday, June 13, 2014

Greenspan Panders to Amazon.China

Frederick J. Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009) and co-author, with William A. Fleckenstein of Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve. He is researching a book about Ben Bernanke.   He writes a blog at www.AuContrarian.com. 

The following was written by Mr. Fan Zhigiang,  the Assistant Researcher and Program Official of Fudan University, and the Professional Translator and Interpreter at Fudan University in China, who translated Panderer, sent me the link to Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession:   

"I am happy to tell you that, on the website of Fudan University Press,a comprehensive academic publishing house of key importance in China and in the World, you can find the announcement and linkage of the Chinese version of your wonderful book Panderer to Power through http://www.fudanpress.com/root/showdetail.asp?bookid=9349.

            "On May 12, I sent two of my translation books with my signatures to your home. You may receive them within a few weeks. Both books are published by Fudan University Press. One book is my translation of Mark Twain's short stories. It is jointly recommended by Mr. Mo Yan, the Winner of 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, and other literature figures.

"Prof. BA Shusong, the Chief Economist of China Banking Association, is very famous in the financial and economics circle and the world at large. His Sina Weibo (microblog) http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_12b97ea6a0101ffqj.html#bsh-24-407900519) has more than 7 million fans. Fortunately, Prof. BA Shusong has kindly recommended my translation of Panderer to Power on his Sina Weibo.

"Some Chinese websites are also publishing the book reviews of my Chinese version of your Panderer to Power. For example, the website of the famous Phoenix TV, a subsidiary of US News Corporation, published some comments on this book on May 11, 2014. (Please log onto http://news.ifeng.com/a/20140511/40244287_0.shtml)


"Currently, it is selling well on
Amazon China. It was ranked No. 18 in the economics section last week according to the website http://www.amazon.cn. Interested readers can buy this book through the following linkage: http://www.amazon.cn/权力掮客玩转华盛顿和华尔街的格林斯潘弗雷德里克·希恩/dp/B00KCENMUO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401109079&sr=8-1&keywords=
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