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The Dig: China Boom w/ Ho-fung Hung

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How Did Chinese State Builders Fail to Foster State Directed Capitalism?

The next question moving forward through Chinese history is quote, how and why Chinese state builders in the 19th and early 20th centuries failed to foster state directed capitalism. How did successful late industrializers like Germany, Russia, and particularly Japan foster the state directed capitalism at this period when Western imperialism was on the rise? There's a lot of then contingent factors and less contingent factors. The precondition is that you need to have a unified strong state that is strong enough to pursue this kind of sometime brutal expropriation of resources from the countryside. So they're exactly doing the same thing, but China didn't manage to do it. And Japan did.

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