Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Modeling China is tricky, depending on where (and when) you look within the country, particularly given its large size and rapid changes. So, what is the constant?
Professor Ang introduces how “directed improvisation” works in China—a blend of top-down direction and bottom-up improvisation, producing diverse local solutions.
Learn more at economicsofchina.org
How can we understand the bright and dark sides of China’s gilded rise? Through the lens of American history.
In this seven-episode series, Yuen Yuen Ang explains how China escaped poverty and became the second largest economy in the world. Rejecting popular assumptions of Chinese exceptionalism, she shows that China’s path to a mixture of wealth and capitalist excesses is more like the American experience than most people think.
Produced by Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha & Kurt Semm
Modeling China is tricky, depending on where (and when) you look within the country, particularly given its large size and rapid changes. So, what is the constant?
Professor Ang introduces how “directed improvisation” works in China—a blend of top-down direction and bottom-up improvisation, producing diverse local solutions.
Learn more at economicsofchina.org
How can we understand the bright and dark sides of China’s gilded rise? Through the lens of American history.
In this seven-episode series, Yuen Yuen Ang explains how China escaped poverty and became the second largest economy in the world. Rejecting popular assumptions of Chinese exceptionalism, she shows that China’s path to a mixture of wealth and capitalist excesses is more like the American experience than most people think.
Produced by Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha & Kurt Semm
