Three Chinas | The Economics of China Episode 1

How much do you really know about the history of modern China?

In Episode 1, Professor Ang introduces the differences in Chinese development under Mao, Deng, and Xi.

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How can we understand the bright and dark sides of China’s gilded rise? Through the lens of American history.

In this seven-episode series, Yuen Yuen Ang explains how China escaped poverty and became the second largest economy in the world. Rejecting popular assumptions of Chinese exceptionalism, she shows that China’s path to a mixture of wealth and capitalist excesses is more like the American experience than most people think.

Produced by Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha & Kurt Semm