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The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World Audiobook, by Dexter Roberts Play Audiobook Sample

The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World Audiobook

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Read By: Joe Barrett Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705235461

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

13

Longest Chapter Length:

59:00 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

10:09 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

38:25 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

The untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy

Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for two decades working as a reporter on economics, business and politics for Bloomberg Businessweek. In The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Roberts explores the reality behind today's financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese manufacturing machine is actually powered.

He focuses on two places: the village of Binghuacun in the province of Guizhou, one of China's poorest regions that sends the highest proportion of its youth away to become migrants; and Dongguan, China's most infamous factory town located in Guangdong, home to both the largest number of migrant workers and the country's biggest manufacturing base.

Within these two towns and the people that move between them, Roberts focuses on the story of the Mo family, former farmers-turned-migrant-workers who are struggling to make a living in a fast-changing country that relegates one-half of its people to second-class status via household registration, land tenure policies and inequality in education and health care systems.

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About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.