Book Title: Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy Author: Anne Stevenson Yang Headline: Early Economic Opening and Author's Unexpected Role in Xian In 1994, Anne Stevenson Yang was invited to Xian, China, to represen
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🗓️ 8 September 2025
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In 1994, Anne Stevenson Yang was invited to Xian, China, to represent a business council, unexpectedly finding herself the esteemed speaker at a trade show. This marked the "second decade of the Chinese miracle," a stark contrast to her 1985 experience as an editorialist at China Pictorial, where employees slept on desks in a profoundly non-capitalistic culture.
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:36.2 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchelor. It is 1994. |
| 0:41.2 | Xi'an, a city in China, the People's Republic of China, |
| 0:48.1 | undergoing a transformation from a poverty-damaged culture, 5,000-year-old culture, poverty damaged by geopolitics and the insistence on the Chinese Communist Party to brutalize the population in the 50s and 60s and 70s. |
| 0:57.2 | And here we are 1994. |
| 1:00.2 | And the author, Ann Stevenson Yang, has returned to China. |
| 1:04.8 | She was there once before as a editorialist, returned to China, representing a business council, |
| 1:10.6 | and she's invited to |
| 1:12.0 | Xi'an's presentation of business and business and manufacturing and development. |
| 1:19.3 | And she arrives and is ushered into the hall and taken upstairs, and there's a velvet curtain and it pulls back and and congratulations a very good |
| 1:32.7 | evening to you thank you for this the book is wild ride a short history of the opening and closing |
| 1:38.2 | of the chinese economy you are privileged to have witnessed the five decades you preview for us here and then analyze. |
| 1:48.5 | And this is 1994. |
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