China's U.S.-like time machine
I recently flew from Chicago to Beijing, a prosaic enough journey for this experienced business traveler and, yet, a fascinating journey for this student of U.S. history.
How so?
Putting aside all the cultural differences, traveling to China is like surveying - in real-time fashion - the past dozen decades of America's social and economic history. It's all there: from our 1890s robber baron capitalism to today's high-tech post-industrialism, with a slew of social revolutions tossed in. [read on]
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