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  • The New China Playbook

  • Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
  • By: Keyu Jin
  • Narrated by: Jenapher Zheng
  • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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By: Keyu Jin
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Summary

A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy.

China's economy has been booming for decades now. A formidable and emerging power on the world stage, the China that most Americans picture is only a rough sketch, based on American news coverage, policy, and ways of understanding.

Enter Keyu Jin: a world-renowned economist who was born in China, educated in the U.S., and is now a tenured professor at the London School of Economics. A person fluent in both Eastern and Western cultures, and a voice of the new generation of Chinese who represent a radical break from the past, Jin is uniquely poised to explain how China became the most successful economic story of our time, as it has shifted from primarily state-owned enterprise to an economy that is thriving in entrepreneurship, and participation in the global economy.

China's economic realm is colourful and lively, filled with paradoxes and conundrums, and Jin believes that by understanding the Chinese model, the people, the culture and history in its true perspective, one can reconcile what may appear to be contradictions to the Western eye.

What follows is an illuminating account of a burgeoning world power, its past, and its potential future.

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Good Balanced/China-Positive Examination of a Different Model

Very good narration.
An excellent summary, written by someone with a suitable background to allow comparisons.
It highlights the fact that there are different approaches possible, other than the American model.
Sure China has a chequered history in many respects, but which country doesn't?
And, if it veers sometimes towards a positive view on China, it's about time at least one book did.

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Understanding China

Great insight into what makes the Chinese such a great force in this world. I have learnt a lot about the Chinese way of doing things & how to approach future contacts .

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Brilliant book

This is the best book about China that I’ve read/listened to. Really clear and refreshingly balanced, yet covers lots of fascinating detail — how paternalism led to the one child policy; how the one child policy affected private savings; how private savings affected the economy; how China fits into the tech revolution and what the country may need to do to adapt to its rapid cultural shift as the new generation steps up.

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Well informed yet wilfully ignorant

Great narration, and particularly enlightening on the rationale and costs surrounding the one-child policy, but shortly thereafter, this book feels like thinly veiled lip service otherwise available in the Global Times.

My main issue with this book is its skimming over or ignoring completely the policies that have caused negative perceptions of China elsewhere in the world and, if nothing else, hindered it economically at home - namely those relating to proven Uyghur oppression, influence, support, and aggression towards its immediate neighbours, and debt-trap diplomacy. Jin essentially defends China where she feels it cannot feasibly speak for itself, painting it in an almost saintly light in the name of "shared economic development" from the end of Chapter 8 (Chapter 11 on Audible) and halfway through Chapter 9 onwards.

The book is well researched and exhibits a tremendous understanding of the thinking and geopolitical circumstances that have brought China to its place in the world today. In this regard, it certainly delivers. That being said, if you're going to be objective, follow through. China, it seems, is unique and special, but only when we discuss topics in a convenient manner. After a dozen or so chapters, I am still left wondering what we are supposed to make of the "new China playbook" and how it is being enacted.

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