1. Introduction -- 2. Common Prosperity: Vision or Campaign? -- 3. The Bureaucracy Strikes Back -- 4. The Party and Common Prosperity -- 5. Can China Innovate without the Platform Economy? -- 6. Xi Jinping’s End Game.

This book discusses the strategies that will define China’s overseas expansion in the coming years. China is spending billions of dollars acquiring overseas companies and assets, from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to the Hinkley Point nuclear station. Will this corporate buying binge...

This book is about the growth of shadow banking in China and the rise of China’s free markets. Shadow Banking refers to capital that is distributed outside the formal banking system, including everything from Mom and Pop lending shops to online credit to giant state owned banks called Trusts....