Taking the Bosses Hostage
Joshua Kurlantzick: China goes into reverse, 26 March 2009
Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China
by Leslie Chang.
Picador, 432 pp., £12.99, February 2009,978 0 330 50670 0 Show More
by Leslie Chang.
Picador, 432 pp., £12.99, February 2009,
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State
by Yasheng Huang.
Cambridge, 366 pp., £15.99, November 2008,978 0 521 89810 2 Show More
by Yasheng Huang.
Cambridge, 366 pp., £15.99, November 2008,
“... come as no surprise. In a sharply written book based on reams of newly uncovered financial data, Yasheng Huang, one of the earliest critics of China’s economic miracle, argues that over the past 20 years the country has actually become less capitalist and less economically free. In the early 1980s, the government essentially strangled emerging private ... ”