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How China Escaped Shock Therapy w/ Isabella Weber

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The Fall of the Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War

The nationalists lost the chinese civil war in part due to their inability to control hyper inflation. A key element in the communist success was recreating and integrating markets through state trading agencies. The underlying economic relations had crumbled during the civil war, which meant that basically, th the basic links of commerce had fallen apart.

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