To subscribe, advertise or contribute articles to www.asiamanufacturingnewstoday.com contact publisher@xtra.co.nz
  • Home
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Archives
Asia Manufacturing News
The official site for the Asia Manufacturing News magazine
  • Home
  • AI
  • Analysis
  • Aviation
  • Big Data
  • Business News
  • Calendar
  • Case Studies
  • Change the Conversation
  • Climate Change
  • Covid-19
  • Developments
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Events
  • Manufacturing Technology
  • Innovators
  • IoT
  • Manufacturing Technology
  • News
  • Product News
  • Smart Manufacturing
  • The Creative Class
  • The Interview
  • Webinars

News Ticker

Building Momentum with Hyster: Koh Kock Leong’s Journey Toward Efficiency and Growth
Time for ASEAN to rethink a single currency amid global trade tensions
Secutech 2025 concludes with optimism and strong affirmation of growth
Zoomlion’s grand debut at 2025 Changsha International Construction Equipment Exhibition
CeMAT Southeast Asia returns to Singapore 
HRS Heat Exchangers, Stand AJ51, ProPak Asia 2025, Bangkok, Thailand
Embracing Automation: Addressing ASEAN’s Manufacturing Challenges
Operationalising AI for Manufacturing in ASEAN

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

-by Dexter Roberts

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.

In The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Dexter Roberts brings to life the problems that China and its people face today as they attempt to overcome a divisive system that poses a serious challenge to the country’s future development. In so doing, Roberts paints a boot-on-the-ground cautionary picture of China for a world now held in its financial thrall.

Share this:

Related Posts

Hyster 2

Analysis /

Building Momentum with Hyster: Koh Kock Leong’s Journey Toward Efficiency and Growth

Anderson Consulting

Business News /

Andersen Consulting expands into Pakistan with collaborating firm NEC Consulting

From-the-rice-paddy-ASIA-MN

Case Studies /

Report: “From the Rice Paddy to the Industrial Park” in Myanmar

‹ MOC-TCI Asia Chapter Conference 2020 July 6-7, 14.00 › Next-generation sorter for supply chain automation

30th May 2025

Recent Posts

  • Building Momentum with Hyster: Koh Kock Leong’s Journey Toward Efficiency and Growth
  • Andersen Consulting expands into Pakistan with collaborating firm NEC Consulting
  • Time for ASEAN to rethink a single currency amid global trade tensions
  • ASEAN-GCC-China collaboration signals growing demand for multilateralism
  • Secutech 2025 concludes with optimism and strong affirmation of growth
  • Zoomlion’s grand debut at 2025 Changsha International Construction Equipment Exhibition
  • Trymax Semiconductor Equipment B.V. reaches 500 process chamber installations in Asia
  • Meet Sidel at ProPak Asia 2025 – Discover Aseptic & Digital Innovations
  • Hong Kong and Middle East: Partnering for Success
  • 67th Session of the APO Governing Body sets strategic direction for a unified productivity vision

Categories

  • AI
  • Analysis
  • Aviation
  • Big Data
  • Business News
  • Calendar
  • Case Studies
  • Change the Conversation
  • Climate Change
  • Covid-19
  • Developments
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Events
  • Innovators
  • IoT
  • Manufacturing Technology
  • Manufacturing Technology
  • News
  • Product News
  • Smart Manufacturing
  • The Creative Class
  • The Interview
  • Uncategorized
  • Webinars

Archives

Back to Top

  • Home
  • AI
  • Analysis
  • Aviation
  • Big Data
  • Business News
  • Calendar
  • Case Studies
  • Change the Conversation
  • Climate Change
  • Covid-19
  • Developments
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Events
  • Manufacturing Technology
  • Innovators
  • IoT
  • Manufacturing Technology
  • News
  • Product News
  • Smart Manufacturing
  • The Creative Class
  • The Interview
  • Webinars

To subscribe, advertise or contribute articles to asiamanufacturingnewstoday.com contact publisher@xtra.co.nz

(c) Asia Manufacturing News, 2025