I originally published this article a decade ago but since it recently attracted some very favorable comments, I’ve decided to redistribute it to my list. During the three decades following Deng Xiaoping’s 1978 reforms, China achieved the fastest sustained rate of economic growth in human history, with the resulting 40-fold rise in the size of China’s economy leaving it poised to surpass America’s as the largest in the world. A billion ordinary Han Chinese have lifted themselves economically from oxen and bicycles to the verge of automobiles within a single generation. China’s academic performance has been just as stunning. The … Continue reading →

Source: How Social Darwinism Made Modern China – LewRockwell