Our Friends in Beijing Subclass_INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY the rise of the knowledge

the rise of the knowledge worker

and an erosion in the quality of our relationships

And though he’d rather work alone

If they all succeed - money

Our Friends in Beijing Subclass_INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY the rise of the knowledgeWhen, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin Lifeng in a cafe in Oxford he wonders if the meeting is a coincidence. When Lin asks him to pass on a coded message, he knows it's not. Once a radical student who helped Jon broadcast the atrocities of Tiananmen Square, Lin is now a well dressed party official with his own agenda. Travelling to Beijing, Jon starts to follow a tangled web in which it is hard to know who are friends and who are