
Karl Gerth, “China: Up Close and Personal” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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What Are the Importances of the Reforms?
Thuse: I like thinking about these things. Doesn't feel like an undergradaca ertome. But let me ask you a very specific question. Is this something that, a, that you think had to have happened to some extent with a natural evolution? Was ow it wasa correction from from a polisy perspective? Or was this more attributable to the unique circumstances of this particular individual and the time that he happened to have come into power i think you could boil it down to how many of the problems that mol anticipated would occur if you re engaged the capitalist west. Thuse: A lot of the kind of consequences i have seen in chinese society tis is why it's
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