Author Biography
Dr Matt Buttsworth is an author, historian and international politics commentator. He is an expert on Chinese and World Politics and History. Nonfiction work by Dr Matt Buttsworth published on Amazon includes 'Polarshift - China, India and the Rise and Fall of the West, ' a wide ranging, thought provoking historical analysis of why the West won and lost world leadership and why the nations of Asia - China and India - are now becoming the dominant economic and technological powers in the world. He is also the author of the international politics analysis article 'China versus the US - the Challenge to the World Trading System' and of 'Eden and the Fall, ' a hard hitting, thought provoking analysis of the fallacies of radical ecological history. His fictional writing includes the popular historical novel 'Zheng He, ' about the life of the famous Chinese navigator and admiral also known as Cheng Ho, and the nuclear thriller 'Peace' as well as a number of collections of poetry and short stories. Dr Matt Buttsworth is currently writing a novel on the Portuguese discovery and conquest of the sea routes of the Indian Ocean.