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Re:The Macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy by Tichy on Monday June 11, 2012 @05:08AM (#4093775)
People should write books about that sort of thing. You know how everybody thinks their lives are completely normal and boring, but from the outside, they are filled with strange things? Nobody outside of China has any idea what it is like to live there. Any novel about daily Chinese live should be interesting.

In a similar vein, I remember how weird it sounded to me when an american friend told me in texas there are such big malls that people go there for working out (running) indoors.

Re:The Macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy by coopdog on Monday June 11, 2012 @08:05AM (#4094162)
There's actually a really interesting book called Mr China by Tim Clissold. It was based about 20 years ago but a real eye opener for what it was/is like to do business there