The Emperor's Old Clothes (Old Stories Told Anew) - Softcover

Van Der Kamp, Jake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9889706113 ISBN 13: 9789889706111

Publisher: Chameleon Press, 2005

Synopsis

Throughout his reign the Emperor had matched his clothes to his big initiatives – military uniform for an armed conflict, track suit for the athletic push, overalls for his agricultural projects and business suit for his drive to make the kingdom a financial centre. One by one his efforts failed and in the end he decided that he had nothing left to show them. It meant one last change of clothes. Jake van der Kamp is a Hong Kong-based financial journalist and novelist whose fiction on the theme of ‘old stories told anew’ explores organised religion, social dilemmas stemming from the rapid pace of technological change and the likely ordering of society in the Space Age of the future.

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Synopsis

A senior civil servant tells a series of cautionary tales on the perils of big government in the Republic of Loranor, as its well-intentioned Emperor finds the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. This modern retelling of the classic fable will strike a chord with anyone who has despaired at the workings of bureaucracy, and examines why things so often go wrong when politicians try to make everyone happy. "'The Emperor's Old Clothes" ridicules pretty much everything and everyone...van der Kamp's target is government that tries to do too much, and society is almost always worse off than if things had been left be...so deftly has the economics been sifted into the mix that it gives this tale a delicious tang.' - "South China Morning Post". Jake van der Kamp is one of Asia's best-known financial and political columnists. His daily Monitor column in Hong Kong's "South China Morning Post" is 'a good antidote to cant' ("FinanceAsia").

Edition details

• Publisher: Chameleon Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9889706113
• ISBN 13: 9789889706111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228