Normalizing China: Gilles Guiheux on China's very ordinary history between 1949 and today
In episode 1747 of the KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Gilles Guiheux, author of CONTEMPORARY CHINA: 1949 TO THE PRESENT, about what he sees as Communist China's very normal history
Gilles Guiheux is a professor at Université de Paris, a researcher at CESSMA, and a senior member of the IUF. His work lies at the intersection of history and sociology. He has focused on the conditions for the emergence of the private sector in Taiwan and in mainland China, and on the construction of the social figures of the entrepreneur and the consumer. He is developing a program on garment-industry workers. He recently published La République populaire de Chine (Les Belles Lettres, 2018).
Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
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