Recommendations from our site
“It’s by Yasheng Huang. He’s written a lot of books since then but this one really stuck in my mind. He perhaps over-celebrates the developments of the 1980s and the blossoming of the town and village enterprises—in a Gandhian rural revolution sense. But he does point out a lot of things that other people haven’t noticed: like the fact that that since the tightening of central government control in the early 1990s, after Tiananmen, the improvements in health and welfare actually went backwards, not forwards.” Read more...
Books to Change the Way You Think About China
Anne Stevenson-Yang, Entrepreneurs & Business People
“Yasheng Huang argues that China’s great strength has been its own entrepreneurial culture and that it has actually stumbled when the state tries to promote its own interests.” Read more...
Evan Osnos, Foreign Correspondent
“Yasheng describes the period of healthy Chinese growth in the 80s, driven by the private sector. In the 90s came giant, state-owned enterprises that have proved to be a double-edged sword for the economy.” Read more...
The best books on The Chinese Economy
Victor Shih, Economist
Our most recommended books
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Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
by Yasheng Huang -
The Story of the Stone (also called Dream of the Red Chamber)
by Cao Xueqin -
To Change China
by Jonathan Spence -
Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong
by Holmes Chan (editor) -
Wolf Totem
by Jiang Rong -
The Water Margin
by Shi Naian & translated by J M Jackson
