The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Dexter Roberts
The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Dexter Roberts
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The Myth of Chinese Capitalism
The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World

Author: Dexter Roberts

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/31/2020


Synopsis

The untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy

Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for two decades working as a reporter on economics, business and politics for Bloomberg Businessweek. In The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Roberts explores the reality behind today's financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese manufacturing machine is actually powered.

He focuses on two places: the village of Binghuacun in the province of Guizhou, one of China's poorest regions that sends the highest proportion of its youth away to become migrants; and Dongguan, China's most infamous factory town located in Guangdong, home to both the largest number of migrant workers and the country's biggest manufacturing base.

Within these two towns and the people that move between them, Roberts focuses on the story of the Mo family, former farmers-turned-migrant-workers who are struggling to make a living in a fast-changing country that relegates one-half of its people to second-class status via household registration, land tenure policies and inequality in education and health care systems.


About Dexter Roberts

Dexter Roberts is a writer, speaker, and analyst on China economics, business, and politics. Previously he served as reporter and China bureau chief for Bloomberg Businessweek and was based in Beijing for more than two decades. He has interviewed numerous Chinese and foreign company CEOs, as well as senior government officials, and has reported from all of China's provinces and regions including Tibet and Xinjiang, as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mongolia, and North Korea.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel

I was given an advance copy by the publishers. Roberts had been going to the poorest regions of inland China to actually talk to people there, who had always been poor and under-educated, who used to go to the coastal cities to provide cheap manufacturing labour. He is fluent in Mandarin and so coul......more

Goodreads review by Maura

You might expect a book titled The Myth of Chinese Capitalism written by a longtime Businessweek journalist to be a numbers-driven analysis of economic policy, labor, and manufacturing in the People’s Republic. While author Dexter Roberts does touch on these topics, his primary focus is on people, n......more

Goodreads review by Alan

美國記者寫的以農民工為主的紀實與觀察,從農民工的成因、家庭、土地、權力等議題談談這個大陸所獨有的社會現象,相信老美對這種與西方截然不同甚至不可想像的情況只會感觸更深,所以整本書雖然只是對現象的描述,但依然有許多發人深省的地方。 說實話,窮困落後從來不是什麼丟臉的事,真正丟臉的是忘記了誰導致億萬中國人民的一窮二白;忘記了是誰偷天換日把所謂脫貧算成功勞攬在自己身上的;忘記了是誰至今還在打壓洗腦人民。 這本書相信在大陸不會有問市的機會,任何對中國有利但對中共不利的人事物肯定都會被黨查禁閹割,所謂欲亡其國先滅其史,今天很多人仍將中國中共混淆不清,除了部分對近代史不熟悉的人之外,更有不少人心知肚明卻故意為之......more

Goodreads review by Izzy

Really good jump off point into the history of capitalism in China covering Political, economic and social consequences of the re-installation of capitalism......more