

Karl Gerth, “China: Up Close and Personal” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Dec 9, 2021
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Studying China
01:31 • 3min
Did You Find Other Like Minded People?
04:36 • 2min
What Are Your Experiences With Taking Chinese Language?
06:23 • 2min
Is There a Love Hate Relationship With China?
08:49 • 2min
What Is Modern China?
10:46 • 5min
Seneca and the One Child Policy
15:30 • 4min
What Is China?
19:12 • 3min
What Is China?
22:03 • 3min
Is the Chinese Government Trying to Lower the Transaction Costs?
25:13 • 3min
The Chinese in the Contemporary World
27:51 • 4min
What Are the Global Forces That Allowed You to Choose?
31:40 • 3min
What Are the Importances of the Reforms?
34:29 • 5min
Did China Jump Into Cars or Were They Pushed?
39:30 • 4min
The State's Role in Regulating Market
43:54 • 2min
The Chinese Automobile Industry Is Getting Bigger and Bigger
46:12 • 4min
The Wealth Creation Movement in China
50:27 • 2min
Is There a Love Hate Relationship With the Rich?
52:14 • 6min
Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Go?
58:02 • 3min
Is It a Real Question About Values?
01:01:12 • 2min
Is the Environment a Problem in China?
01:03:03 • 4min
Where Does the Environment Rate in China?
01:07:31 • 2min
Are We Too Locked in This Simple Idea of China vs the World?
01:09:59 • 5min
Is the Eu a Zero Sum Game?
01:15:07 • 2min
What's the Heat?
01:17:23 • 2min
What Is the Real Goal of China?
01:19:14 • 3min
Is There Something More Than That?
01:22:23 • 3min
Is the Chinese Looking at Europe as America Minus Ten?
01:25:04 • 4min
Is There Something Wrong With China?
01:28:41 • 3min
Democracy and Capitalism in China
01:31:31 • 2min
Democracy and Capitalism Will Wash Away All the Problems
01:33:50 • 5min
What's Your Fearless Prognosis?
01:38:36 • 3min
The Chinese Economy Is a Corrupt Place
01:41:18 • 2min
Why I Like Being an Historian, Because I Feel Like I Can Jump Around Quite a Bit
01:43:25 • 5min
What Do You Think Is Going to Happen?
01:48:36 • 2min
What Do You Want to Do Now?
01:50:23 • 2min
How Much of a Breakon Economy Are You Prepared to Have?
01:52:27 • 3min
What Kind of Measures Do You Think You Can Take?
01:55:49 • 3min
Would You Recommend a Change in China Policy?
01:58:33 • 5min
Is China a Foil for Sustainable Growth?
02:03:10 • 3min
The Problem Is That It Couldn't Have Come Out of Nothing
02:06:19 • 6min