Article: Darker view of Chinese 'miracle' INSIDE ASIA

Alan Wheatley The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
01-06-2009
Darker view of Chinese 'miracle' INSIDE ASIA
Byline: Alan Wheatley The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: FINANCE/BUSINESS

BEIJING --

A self-serving government deliberately impoverishes the countryside, stifling business and driving illiteracy up while building skyscraper-adorned metropolises admired by the foreign capitalists it woos.

Welcome to the China of Yasheng Huang, a U.S. academic whose trenchant analysis of 30 years of Chinese market reforms will discomfit those betting that the current economic downturn is but a blip in the Middle Kingdom's inexorable ascent.
Without root-and-branch ...

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