The Dig: China Boom w/ Ho-fung Hung
Jacobin Radio
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China's Capitalist Boom - A History of the Chinese Diaspora
China's capitalist boom is tantamount to an explosion ignited by the mixing of the Maoist legacies and East Asian capitalism. The capital, in turn, had even deeper roots in coastal entrepreneurial families who had departed Qing era China to make their fortunes in European colonial outposts. How did that capital find its way from Qing era coastal China, then to American Cold War allies in Asia, and then finally to financing China's export boom? It's quite a story.
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