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This is a book on the Belt and Road Initiative, written from an unusual perspective — it is written by someone who was born in India but raised in Singapore; who has never spent a day of schooling in the greater China (Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) but has Chinese heritage; who eventually built a long and distinguished career in the West. With such an atypical background, he took an off-the-beaten-path approach by asking the fundamental question of how such an important initiative, began entirely by China, can deeply impact and transform the millennium mindset of Chinese. Such a transformation of the Chinese shall render a new definition of what a "powerful nation" in the 21st century should be, for the betterment of humanity. This is unlike the one made by Western civilization for many centuries since the Renaissance days. Three main outcomes of the BRI have been embedded directly or indirectly throughout the book: Supercontinent, Neo-Renaissance and Cultural Communications. The author felt that these three outcomes are the possible mitigation for the world in the 21st century, facing existential challenges.

Da Hsuan Feng is currently the Honorary Dean of Hainan University Belt and Road Research Institute and the Chief Advisor of China Silk Road iValley Research Institute. He grew up in Singapore and received his physics PhD from the University of Minnesota (1972). He was the M Russell Wehr Chair Professor of Drexel University. He also served as the United States National Science Foundation Program Director in Theoretical Physics for two years. Since 2002, Feng had taken roles as the Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at Dallas, the Senior Vice President of National Cheng Kung University, National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, and Special Advisor to the Rector and Director of Global Strategies of Macau University.

Feng is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and had been the honorary professor of fifteen Chinese universities which includes Peking Union Medical College, Fudan University, Jilin University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Applied Physics. Feng was the 2009 Bian-Zhong laureate for individuals with outstanding contributions to Hubei Province (2009 ). He was also the recipient of ""The Light of Civilization, the 2017 Chinese Cultural Exchange Award"" ·2017 .

Feng was an honorary Board of Trustee of Nanjing University, a member of the Board of Trustees of Shantou University (2006–2015) and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Universiti Teknologi Petronas of Malaysia and Binus University of Indonesia. Feng is also a frequent author or co-author of editorials of major newspaper in East Asia, in Chinese and English. This includes China's China Daily, Global Times, UK's Financial Times Chinese Edition, and South China Morning Post of HK, Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao of Singapore. He is the author of two books, Edu-Renaissance: Notes from a Globetrotting Higher Educator, and Belt and Road Initiative: Chinese Version of ""Marshall Plan""?, both published by Singapore's World Scientific Publishing Co.