Why West doesn’t understand China, according to ex-Harvard Chinese author

Nie Huihua, a professor of economics at Renmin University, discusses how an effective understanding of China’s development requires a shift from Western-centric frameworks to an integrated perspective that recognises how formal institutions, informal grass-roots mechanisms and cultural collectivism couple together to create a self-consistent and adaptive governance system. SCMP Plus readers get early access to articles in the Open Questions series. You received economics training at Harvard, ...

By Phoebe Zhang