Je ne crois pas avoir lu ces dernières années un article...
Je ne crois pas avoir lu ces dernières années un article sur la Chine qui ne soit pas vertigineux. The Great Leap: Scenes from China’s industrial revolution ne fait pas exception, tout en relativisant quelques idées reçues.
The problem with actually reporting about a place, however, is that you start collecting stories, and they never quite fit. It’s not that any of these angles are wrong – there are countless well documented stories of nightmarish factory conditions, human-rights violations, local corruption, and environmental folly – but even taken together they don’t come close to adding up to China. And they allow us to ignore what might be most crucial about the emerging nation: the ways it is starting to resemble our own.
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