China is a place of contradictions and nuances. Here’s but one: China is the world’s second-largest economy, as we often hear, but the average Chinese worker earns about as much during the year as someone from the Dominican Republic.10 books by writers who allow a story to unfold—who spend time showing the reader the parts of China we don’t know, instead of telling us about them—as they explain modern China to outsiders.
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