I've read this book. It's mostly wishful thinking. Note that there are no tent cities in the streets of Beijing, nor addicts everywhere, like there are in basically every Western country - including this guy's.
I couldn't give you one - the topic is too vast and my memory too shot. But basically, if you compare it to someone like the execrable Fukuyama, who calls Deng Xiaoping the greatest statesman of the 20th century, it was consistently putting a negative spin on everything - including Deng. It was as if it was written by someone with an axe to grind.
This same thing was true of his earlier books, but there it was at least justified.
I've read this book. It's mostly wishful thinking. Note that there are no tent cities in the streets of Beijing, nor addicts everywhere, like there are in basically every Western country - including this guy's.
What's the tl;dr?
I couldn't give you one - the topic is too vast and my memory too shot. But basically, if you compare it to someone like the execrable Fukuyama, who calls Deng Xiaoping the greatest statesman of the 20th century, it was consistently putting a negative spin on everything - including Deng. It was as if it was written by someone with an axe to grind.
This same thing was true of his earlier books, but there it was at least justified.