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Karl Gerth, “China: Up Close and Personal” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in East Asian Studies

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The State's Role in Regulating Market

When i started going to china in the id 19 eighties, even if you had a car, the roads were horrible and you couldn't go anywhere. So the state demolishing houses and turning them into roads for you to drive on, or creating highways, or all those other things, helps create the infi structure. I think this is very important, because we think of, well, why do chinese have so many cars? Why have they become the world's larges car manufacture and market? We think while market, well, of course, if the state had denied them the ability. Once the state gets out of the way, ah, then people can do what comes

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