Mao to Now

I???ve been going to China for two years now. The buzz and frenetic pace of entrepreneurial activity is just amazing. The Chinese have been extremely success at developing business platforms???businesses that make money by matching different kinds of customers together and helping them interact. That???s abstract so let???s get concrete. Alibaba is a massively successful platform that helps businesses find suppliers; most of the buyers are large Western companies while the suppliers are small and medium sized Chinese firms. Baidu is China???s answer to Google???it brings searchers and advertisers together. There are many more. And for an upstart consider FaceRen which brings Chinese domestic and expat students together just like FaceBook. For more see my book on platform businesses???Catalyst Code; the Chinese edition is coming out next year.
Thanks,
David Evans

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Melinda,

Your breathtaking survey of the last 30 years left me with chills.

Thanks,
HF.

Melinda,

This is breathtaking survey of the last 30 years.

Thanks,
HF.

What commented by Gustomaybe is totally wrong, the USA is really a robber down to earth, each item in your Museum was robbed from China, Europe, or other parts. Can you deny the truth? Pls do not forget the history, USA history is a one full of bloody suppression of Indians and invasion and crazy robbing. Only after World Ware II, can USA develop in a normal way, but all this cannot cover up his dirty history. Now we have individual freedom, also human dignity, also creative capacity, but what we are not happy is corruption.
I'm doing foreign trade, I can send you a mirror free of charge so that you can look into the mirror.

I'm sorry if I'm a little radical in response to your remarks, but really you are not so responsible in making comments. China is developing, USA is developing also, Each country has its good. Your USA is not so perfect actually. From the Iraqi war, people around the world can see how USA poeple are, to make an excuse, you can make up the information to say there are massive destructive weapons there, but when your troops invaded the Iraq, and dug up the earth, you found nothing, you are searching all kinds of mock-up excuse to justify your bloody invasion. What kinds of USA people you are.

China would be nothing today if it was funded by the capitalist countries since the 1980s, as part of their new world order plan. Everything they have, the science, the factories, even the military technology, comes from the US. On their own, they would still be carrying their Mao book of quotations and starving. This will end. Because China has no sense of individual freedom, of human dignity or creative capacity, it will sink.

Tiananmen square is not forgotten. I grow up in China during the 80's. What happened in 1989 gave me so much disillusion I had to leave her. As I get older I realize Rome is not build in one day. China is social-economically equivalent to the US 120 years ago. In 1888 the "real" US income is roughly the same as China today. That was before social security, fed reserve, equal opportunity for blacks. Give China 100 yrs.

If Newsweek had more articles like this to enlighten the American mind with regards to the world outside our work cubicles, I would actually subscribe. But then I see more on Huckabee and politics (yawn), short 2 page articles (How informative can they be?) and movie reviews (Oscar worthy? Just shoot me now) to name but a few shortcomings of news in America.

Not bad by large, but obviously u are reviewing ur experience from a western eye, inspite of the eastern blood flowing in ur vessels. That's why u pay more attention to Tiananmen Event and more other black sides of a blooming power are included for the most part with details. Maybe u r not doing this on purpose, but I can't agree with u totally on what u've depicted about my country.

Like a wikipedia article, this perspective is as good a place as any to start. And like wikipedia, NEVER trust a single source of information (sorry mom). If you really want to understand, then you've got to DIG DEEPER.
Varied points of view help you to see more clearly.

Overall, I'd say that the article is well-balanced. But I'd also encourage EVERYONE to seek further perspectives. Don't limit yourself to one person's point of view.

wonderful story.... you should write a book, I hope the less fortunate will soon see the government provide protection and they don't end up with kloptracy develop as we has now.

I carefully went through the article. Based on personal experiences it was truly a review of Chinese history from Mao to now, very objective and a must-read for those who show some interest in China's economic, political and social development in the past over 50 years.

As a teacher of English here in China, I have lots of opportunities to discuss issues over China with my foreign friends from the world over. They came to see eye to eye that people in Western countries are far from well-informed about what???s going on here in China. One colleague of mine, Eddie, from Seattle once told me ???American people have no idea about China. And I think the information to the public is filtered back in the States. There???s a huge gap between what I had read back home and what I am witnessing now here in China.???

To be quite honest, I really can not understand how come American people do not get to have a big picture about China as, I suppose, USA is the land of freedom, democracy, and information and beyond. According to my personal observations, the image of China to Westerners, whether Americans or Europeans, basically resides in a bag printed with a Mao figure or a picture of a man with pigtail. The former one represents communisms while the latter for the ancient China.

Yet I always believe something is wrong here with the two images. Communism? I really have no idea whatsoever about it. But one thing is for sure: China is developing so fast here. Pigtail? That???s a tiny part of Chinese history, a fragment.

To know our history I suggest Western folks to read books written by Chinese Ancient philosophers such as Confucian and Laozi. Personally by reading them I got to know how Chinese people survived over thousands of years. I am always amazed every time I am exposed to their wisdom.

And of course I am not a nationalist. I always like to see myself as a global villager. I am also open to Western wisdom. That???s why I am here and what???s why I am learning English. Every culture has its limitations. To take the best from all over the world