What China's History Should Teach Us

... professor looks more convincing to me than many volumes of economic and social statistics. When I was a college freshman in Moscow almost half a century ago, most of my classmates including me looked at the United States as the ultimate manifestation of modernity. We had heated debates about various national modernization paths and development trajectories, but the end goal was clear: to catch up with the United States. The sooner the better. America was always the standard point of reference, the ultimate ...