Episode 93: Frank Dikötter on China’s Uneven Rise
Bookstack
00:00
We Do Not Know Anything About China
Some of the very best accounts really do home from journalists. Not even the regime itself knows all that much about the PRC simply because there's obfuscation at every level, he says. There definitely is a very strongly revisionist tone to this book and to your argument we often in the West talk about the China miracle. But you actually challenge that. Your question, it seems to me, is did the miracle actually take place in the first place? Yes, indeed.
Transcript
Play full episode
