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L'Empereur et les milliardaires rouges
A l'occasion du XXe congrès du Parti communiste chinois à l'automne 2022, Christine Ockrent livre une enquête sur la situation des oligarques de Chine, qui se sont enrichis en édifiant des empires dans les secteurs de la technologie et de l'immobilier notamment, face à la réélection probable de Xi Jinping. Elle montre comment l'homme fort du régime n'hésite pas à mettre au ban de la société les gêneurs.
220 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 15, 2023
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Christine Ockrent
34 books3 followersChristine Ockrent (born 24 April 1944) is a Belgian journalist whose career has principally centered on French television.
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August 26, 2024
Interesting book about the treatment of the new rich Chinese entrepreneur under Xi Jinping. The take away offered by the book is that under the current Chinese president, those entrepreneur and their companies are under strong pressure to demonstrate loyalty toward the Communist Party of China, and align their priorities with those of the country.
The main take-away from the book that I got, is that indeed after experiencing unrestrained growth in a large, untapped and protected digital market, most of those companies and their owners fell under a more heavily supervised economic environement by the state. The CCP, under Xi Jinping, seems to wish to harness those new private markets forces toward national goal identified under their policies, seeing the profits made in consumer markets as a dsitraction from those goals. This aligned effectively with description of ongoing policies notably in Science & Technology, dual-circulation economy and more.
The book focus much however in presenting this phenomenon as one rectifying affront made to the "emperor" and its ego, and not much analysis on the wider policy environnement shift of China, beside a few allusion to it. In this sense the book tries much more to create some dramatic effect by enumarating a serie of cases displaying the treatment of ultrarich individuals in recent years under CCP rule.
I would find more interesting a real analysis, providing a overview of the policy wind changing or deeper analysis of documents available. A paralel that could be interested is the one described in "Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the States", which descrived a boom in rural entreprises in the 80s, then culled and brought back to order where ressources were to focus more on urban entreprises instead. A number of Chinese entrepreneurs experiences similar fate as in this one.
Additionally, the author seem to have made this book mostly through accumulated snippets of newspapers and a few personal conversations, instead of primary source material or in-depth investigation. It is useful to know what made the news overall ; less to acquire a good understanding of the dynamics at play in the China of today.
The main take-away from the book that I got, is that indeed after experiencing unrestrained growth in a large, untapped and protected digital market, most of those companies and their owners fell under a more heavily supervised economic environement by the state. The CCP, under Xi Jinping, seems to wish to harness those new private markets forces toward national goal identified under their policies, seeing the profits made in consumer markets as a dsitraction from those goals. This aligned effectively with description of ongoing policies notably in Science & Technology, dual-circulation economy and more.
The book focus much however in presenting this phenomenon as one rectifying affront made to the "emperor" and its ego, and not much analysis on the wider policy environnement shift of China, beside a few allusion to it. In this sense the book tries much more to create some dramatic effect by enumarating a serie of cases displaying the treatment of ultrarich individuals in recent years under CCP rule.
I would find more interesting a real analysis, providing a overview of the policy wind changing or deeper analysis of documents available. A paralel that could be interested is the one described in "Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the States", which descrived a boom in rural entreprises in the 80s, then culled and brought back to order where ressources were to focus more on urban entreprises instead. A number of Chinese entrepreneurs experiences similar fate as in this one.
Additionally, the author seem to have made this book mostly through accumulated snippets of newspapers and a few personal conversations, instead of primary source material or in-depth investigation. It is useful to know what made the news overall ; less to acquire a good understanding of the dynamics at play in the China of today.
November 26, 2024
Un livre intéressant sur l’essor puis la chute d’entrepreneurs milliardaires chinois.
On comprend mieux la disparition de Jack Ma, l’effondrement du secteur de l’immobilier, les purges à répétitions autour de Xi Jinping …
La vraie question : comment la Chine va s’en sortir avec une croissance faible (comparativement), un déclin démographique
On comprend mieux la disparition de Jack Ma, l’effondrement du secteur de l’immobilier, les purges à répétitions autour de Xi Jinping …
La vraie question : comment la Chine va s’en sortir avec une croissance faible (comparativement), un déclin démographique
July 5, 2023
Passionnant et inquiétant
June 29, 2025
easy to read despite the subject
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