The paradox of vast corruption and fast growth in China's "Gilded Age"
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The Gilded Age in the United States and China in the Era of Reform and Opening
i'd love to get the two of you on to talk about what what your findings are, and whether they can be squared. What makes china and america in the nineteenth cent similar is that they were both periods of economic renewal and hustling after devastation. The previous social class had already been destroyed. And so it presents before you this opportunity for for creating a new class of rich. It's also worthy to add that the gilded age is not just about rapid industrialization, because a country like south corea also underwent rapid industrialization but i wouldn't characterize it as a gilded age.
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