Gordon Chang wrote The Coming Collapse of China in 2001, while Joe Studwell wrote the bestselling The China Dream a year later, essentially a sophisticated exercise in mockery, as he tried to deflate the dreams of Western businessmen flocking to China.
Chang and Studwell both seemed to take ChinaÆs burst of prosperity as a personal insult and wrote very rude but entertaining books û although Studwell focused more on denying ChinaÆs prospects for reaching Great Power status, rather than on forecasting an economic collapse. In any case, Western businessmen and Chinese officials...
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