The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, The Factory, and the Future of the World. Talking with author Dexter Tiff Roberts

The San Francisco Experience

EpisodeMay 3, 202345m

The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, The Factory, and the Future of the World. Talking with author Dexter Tiff Roberts

The San Francisco Experience

EpisodeMay 3, 202345m

Dexter Roberts worked as a journalist for Bloomberg Businessweek in their Beijing bureau for over 20 years. He brings a unique perspective and is able to draw back the curtain on the Chinese economy, in particular the growing wealth gap between wealthy urban middle classes and impoverished rural dwellers. The 300 million migrant workers who were drawn to factory jobs in coastal cities are often left in a no man's land of uncertainty because of Hukou registration tying them to their poor, native rural villages for social benefits.

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We are a "deep dive" news podcast, for Americans who get their news from the Internet. Our mission is to give the listener succinct, fact based analysis both non-ideological and independent from a California, Silicon Valley perspective. Your host Jim Herlihy is a published author: his novel “Deceit and Dirty Money” is available on line. He served as President of the SF Public Library Commission 1992 - 1996. While working in Latin America, he was a stringer for The Economist, The Times and the BBC. Jim serves as a director on two SF sister city boards : Bangalore, India and Cork, Ireland.

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