How did China emerge from isolation and poverty under Mao Zedong to become the economic powerhouse shaping the 21st … century? Soon after Mao died in 1976, China's leaders invited many of the leading foreign economists to come to China and … country's socialist economy. Working together, interacting in complex dynamics of influence and adaptation, they changed China.-- …

dire implications for the global economyAll the experts agree: the 21st century belongs to China. Given America's looming … insolvency and the possibility of the collapse of the U.S. dollar, who can doubt that China is poised to take over the role of … controversial, contrarian view of contemporary China. Drawing upon a wealth of historical and up-to-the-minute data, Gorrie makes a …