Book review

How Janet Yellen came to teach a Chinese hard labourer economics

A Beijing boy's escape from digging ditches in the desert to lecturing at Wharton: Weijian Shan’s memoir Out of the Gobi makes for an inspiring holiday read.
Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia
Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia
July 25, 2019

Weijian Shan’s book reads like the classic tale of the American Dream, but with a twist: it starts in communist China.

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