JULIAN BAIRD GERWITZ
In the most rapid and largest growth of an economy was achieved in the late 1980s, and they managed to do it by maintaining total political control and economic control of the large, critical areas to the degree that any government can control economies.
Zhou , Deng and other Chinese senior leaders carefully studied failures of 200th Century Communist nation economies from Russia to North Korea, and observed the successes of not only the United States and Western Europe, but South= Korea and Thailand å well and decided to transform to a capitalist style market and competitive economy. Zhou organized a cruse on which they invited Western economists and political economists to advise on how to make the transformation. Th Chinese took many of the Western ideas, placed them into a Chinese context, added some ideas of their own and proceeded ahead with the largest and most seectaculkar economic transformation and development in World history.
Julian Baird Gewirtz is a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, where he is a doctoral candidate in modern Chinese history. His first book, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in January 2017. He is fluent in Chinese and has worked for Alibaba, Facebook, and Caijing magazine in China and the United States. Gewirtz’s writing on Asia and other topics has been published by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Economist. He received a master’s degree in history from Oxford University in 2014 and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 2013.
