In Episode 2, Professor Ang rejects the popular impression that China undertook economic reforms without political reforms.

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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