Has China now reached its age of complacency? To answer this question, Dr. Wang (see bio below) takes us through the history of China's economic miracle of the last 40 years. But the story starts even before that... when impoverished Chinese villagers decided to take matters into their own hands and improve their lives - in spite of their government misguided policies and restrictions.

As you listen to this interview, be ready as Dr. Wang debunks much of what many of us have come to believe about the history of China.

*****🚩About My Guest: Dr. Feng Wang is a professor of sociology at U. C. Irvine. His research focus includes contemporary Chinese society, demography, economy and politics.

Dr. Wang is the author of

1. One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700–2000
2. Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900,
3. Creating Wealth and Poverty in Post-Socialist China,
4. Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China , and
5. China's Age of Abundance: Origins, Ascendance, and Aftermath, Dr. Wang's most recent book, which we discuss in this episode.

And here is my first interview with Dr. Wang, during which we discussed China's brutal one-child Policy.

*****In this interview, Dr. Wang mentions Dr. Huang - a professor at MIT and an economic historian. I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Huang about the economic history of China in this interview.

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