Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics

“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...

The best books on China

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