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Some cadres cannot keep up | The Tangled Woof
Some of Xi Jinping’s most revealing comments about economic policy have come when he is ostensibly not talking about the economy at all. Official media have...
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https://andrewbatson.com/2023/05/10/xis-new-growth-synthesis/
Xi’s new growth synthesis | The Tangled Woof
After spending a few weeks in Beijing, the general relief people feel at being out from under the hammer of Covid controls and having daily life resume is...
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https://andrewbatson.com/2013/01/15/the-best-books-i-read-in-2012/
The best books I read in 2012 | The Tangled Woof
Nonfiction Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick. An amazing piece of journalism and a window into real life in the world’s most...
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https://andrewbatson.com/2025/10/18/exams-are-everything-in-china/
Exams are everything in China | The Tangled Woof
The first people you meet in life are your parents. That simple fact makes the family the foundational institution of society: learning how to be a person, and...
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https://andrewbatson.com/2017/02/06/how-the-anti-capitalist-cultural-revolution-led-to-the-revival-of-capitalism/
How the anti-capitalist Cultural Revolution led to the revival of capitalism | The Tangled Woof
Andrew Walder’s essay “Bending the Arc of Chinese History: The Cultural Revolution’s Paradoxical Legacy” was recently recommended to me, and indeed it is an...
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https://andrewbatson.com/2021/12/22/the-best-books-i-read-in-2021/
The best books I read in 2021 | The Tangled Woof
This year I had better luck with my fiction reading than with my nonfiction, so I’m putting my fiction recommendations first. Books are listed in the order in...
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