Interview Transcript
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Email Interview
January 7th, 2013
Ezra F. Vogel
Author of: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard
Former Director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the Asia Center
Email Interview
January 7th, 2013
Ezra F. Vogel
Author of: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard
Former Director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the Asia Center
1.) Were any improvements or negatives made to the Economic Reforms to fit today's situations?
Economic policies now require a way to repair local financial debts, to move more labor intensive factories inland, to stimulate consumer demand.
2.) Which of the following of Deng Xiaoping's Reforms would you say is most effective and is still applicable nowadays?
-Rural Reforms -Guangdong Experiment/SEZ -Opening Policy
Openness is more important today such it is a continuing process.
3.) Do you think China took away many of the American jobs? Explain why or why not.
China did not take so many American jobs since mass production had already declined in the United States (with industrialization of other East Asian countries.) Cheap Chinese production makes manufactured goods cheaper than they would otherwise be.
Economic policies now require a way to repair local financial debts, to move more labor intensive factories inland, to stimulate consumer demand.
2.) Which of the following of Deng Xiaoping's Reforms would you say is most effective and is still applicable nowadays?
-Rural Reforms -Guangdong Experiment/SEZ -Opening Policy
Openness is more important today such it is a continuing process.
3.) Do you think China took away many of the American jobs? Explain why or why not.
China did not take so many American jobs since mass production had already declined in the United States (with industrialization of other East Asian countries.) Cheap Chinese production makes manufactured goods cheaper than they would otherwise be.