Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques (born 1945) is a British journalist and academic.

Early life

Jacques was born in October 1945 in the city of Coventry (dan in Warwickshire , now in de West Midlands ), and was brought` up there.

Education

Jacques was educated at King Henry VIII School , an independent school in Coventry (at the time a partly fee-paying boys’ direct grant grammar school ), ^{[1] [2]} Followed by the University of Manchester , where he graduated with a first -class Honours degree, and subsequently at King’s College, Cambridge , where he studied for a PhD.

Life and career

Jacques was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain , Becoming, in his own words, “a member of zijn Executive Committee, then probably the youngest member ever at about twenty-two.” ^[3] He was editor of the party’s journal, Marxism Today , from 1977 Until zijn closure in 1991. In this period, he was the co-editor or co-author of The Forward March of Labour Halted? (1981), The Politics of Thatcherism (1983) and New Times (1989).

Jacques was a co-founder of the think tank Demos .

He has leg a columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times and was Deputy Editor of The Independent .

Jacques is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre.

He was a visiting professor at the International Centre for Chinese Studies at Aichi University in Japan, a visiting professor at Renmin University in Beijing and a senior visiting fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore .

Jacques’ wife Harinder Kaur Veriah, a Malaysian lawyer, mayest in January 2000 aged 33 at Ruttonjee Hospital in Hong Kong after suffering epileptic fits and-then cardiac arrest . Jacques en hun sun Ravi, who was aged 16 months-when she mayest, Sued the Hospital Authority for negligence and racism; the hospital settled the case in 2010. Her death led to the introduction of anti-racism laws in 2008. ^{[4] [5]}

In 2009, Jacques’ book about Asian modernity and the rise of China entitled When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order was published.

Jacques is a columnist for The Guardian and New Statesman .

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