Charting China's changes

Following the nation's story from the ancient text of I Ching right up to Xi Jinping's new era, Hugh Peyman's new book plots the country's rapid rise, Andrew Moody reports.

When asked why he was moving to China nearly two decades ago, Hugh Peyman said it was because "it was the greatest show on Earth".

The author and consultant says the phrase used to promote the 19th-century Barnum & Bailey Circus in the United States just sprang to mind when he was planning to relocate his investment-research business from Singapore to Shanghai in 2002.