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

Dec 9, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Studying China
01:31 • 3min
3
Did You Find Other Like Minded People?
04:36 • 2min
4
What Are Your Experiences With Taking Chinese Language?
06:23 • 2min
5
Is There a Love Hate Relationship With China?
08:49 • 2min
6
What Is Modern China?
10:46 • 5min
7
Seneca and the One Child Policy
15:30 • 4min
8
What Is China?
19:12 • 3min
9
What Is China?
22:03 • 3min
10
Is the Chinese Government Trying to Lower the Transaction Costs?
25:13 • 3min
11
The Chinese in the Contemporary World
27:51 • 4min
12
What Are the Global Forces That Allowed You to Choose?
31:40 • 3min
13
What Are the Importances of the Reforms?
34:29 • 5min
14
Did China Jump Into Cars or Were They Pushed?
39:30 • 4min
15
The State's Role in Regulating Market
43:54 • 2min
16
The Chinese Automobile Industry Is Getting Bigger and Bigger
46:12 • 4min
17
The Wealth Creation Movement in China
50:27 • 2min
18
Is There a Love Hate Relationship With the Rich?
52:14 • 6min
19
Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Go?
58:02 • 3min
20
Is It a Real Question About Values?
01:01:12 • 2min
21
Is the Environment a Problem in China?
01:03:03 • 4min
22
Where Does the Environment Rate in China?
01:07:31 • 2min
23
Are We Too Locked in This Simple Idea of China vs the World?
01:09:59 • 5min
24
Is the Eu a Zero Sum Game?
01:15:07 • 2min
25
What's the Heat?
01:17:23 • 2min
26
What Is the Real Goal of China?
01:19:14 • 3min
27
Is There Something More Than That?
01:22:23 • 3min
28
Is the Chinese Looking at Europe as America Minus Ten?
01:25:04 • 4min
29
Is There Something Wrong With China?
01:28:41 • 3min
30
Democracy and Capitalism in China
01:31:31 • 2min
31
Democracy and Capitalism Will Wash Away All the Problems
01:33:50 • 5min
32
What's Your Fearless Prognosis?
01:38:36 • 3min
33
The Chinese Economy Is a Corrupt Place
01:41:18 • 2min
34
Why I Like Being an Historian, Because I Feel Like I Can Jump Around Quite a Bit
01:43:25 • 5min
35
What Do You Think Is Going to Happen?
01:48:36 • 2min
36
What Do You Want to Do Now?
01:50:23 • 2min
37
How Much of a Breakon Economy Are You Prepared to Have?
01:52:27 • 3min
38
What Kind of Measures Do You Think You Can Take?
01:55:49 • 3min
39
Would You Recommend a Change in China Policy?
01:58:33 • 5min
40
Is China a Foil for Sustainable Growth?
02:03:10 • 3min
41
The Problem Is That It Couldn't Have Come Out of Nothing
02:06:19 • 6min