{"id":1363,"date":"2009-02-07T11:46:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-global-economic-crisis-is-proving-good-for-business\/"},"modified":"2009-02-07T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T18:48:23","slug":"the-global-economic-crisis-is-proving-good-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/07\/the-global-economic-crisis-is-proving-good-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The Global Economic Crisis Is Proving Good For Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Economist<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ideological debate in China<\/p>\n

The Little Red Bookshop<\/h1>\n

Feb 5th 2009 | BEIJING | The Economist<\/em>\u00a0print edition<\/p>\n

Whose little-read leftist texts may be coming back into vogue<\/h2>\n

Illustration by Claudio Munoz<\/span>\"<\/p>\n

IN A small bookshop on the ninth floor of an office and residential building in Beijing\u2019s university district, the staff wear Mao badges. Works extolling the late Chinese leader, damning capitalism and attacking globalisation are laid out on shelves. Scour the \u201cnon-mainstream economists\u201d section for some of the most popular ones. Staples of most bookshops\u2014volumes on how to succeed in business, play the stockmarket or get into an American university\u2014are not on sale.<\/p>\n

The Utopia bookshop is a refuge for China\u2019s leftists, the term used to describe those nostalgic for Mao Zedong\u2019s rule and worried that the country is abandoning its communist principles. This is the place to buy the selected writings of Mao\u2019s late widow, Jiang Qing, and other members of the Gang of Four who were imprisoned after the chairman\u2019s death. A three-volume critique of China\u2019s property law, enacted in 2007 and much disliked by leftists because of its supposed bias in favour of private-property ownership, goes for 200 yuan ($30).<\/p>\n

A bookshop manager says the global economic crisis is proving good for business.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at Economist.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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