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Probably the best overview of the China boom of the past quarter century is ironically provided by a book which sets out to prove that the boom itself is a chimera.
Joe Studwell's China Dream, published in 2001, is much more sensible than Gordon Chang's The Coming Collapse of China. For a start, it leaves open the possibility that China will not collapse. It explains accurately and clearly how China moved from Maoist madness in the 1970s to capitalist chaos in the 1990s and beyond, and is a must-read for that reason.
The problem comes with the conclusions drawn. The implication, running through all the stories of messy ...
The problem comes with the conclusions drawn. The implication, running through all the stories of messy ...
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