In December 1978, at the 1 l th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party,the Central Committee under Dang Xiaoping embarked on a policy of reformthat opened the doors to the rest of the world, helping to make China the economic superpower it is today and transforming the lives of its people.

For the few foreign business people who have been engaged with China since this time, the changes have been equally dramatic My Thirty Years in China is a compilation of true-life stories by foreign nationals, allindividually successful in their chosen field of business, who have been pioneers in living and working in this challenging country.

Their memories and insights - sometimes comic, sometimes sad- recall the joys and frustrations of their adopted home and paint a fascinating picture of what has changed in China over the past three decades - and what has not.

My Thirty Years in China的13名作者,或在革命时期边于中国建立了深厚友谊,或自改革开放起,便投身中国。此书是这13名作者的自传,讲述他们经过30年时间沉淀下来积攒而得的中国往事。