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State Capitalism

Business World

Heirs of Mao’s Comrades Rise as New Capitalist Nobility

How the ‘princeling’ descendants of Mao’s ‘Eight Immortals’consolidated unimaginable power and wealth in the New China.

Shai Oster, Michael Forsythe, Dune Lawrence, Henry Sanderson Bloomberg Jan 2013 25min Permalink

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China’s Black Market City

In mountainous Wenzhou “the emperor is far away” and the freest of markets reign.

Bradley Gardner Reason Dec 2011 15min Permalink