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Bruce Dickson, George Washington University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReview 3\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Yuen Yuen Ang has emerged as her generation's leading analyst and public interpreter of China's development experience, and the distinctive strategies underpinning it. Her latest offering is broadly important, intellectually solid, immensely interesting and uniquely accessible to scholars, lay readers and practitioners alike. It will be an academic blockbuster.' Michael Woolcock, World Bank and Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReview 4\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Skillfully unbundling forms of corruption and placing China's 'Gilded Age' firmly in comparative and historical perspective, Yuen Yuen Ang brings a fresh and penetrating new perspective to one of the central puzzles of the current era - and reminds Americans of the deep-seated corruption of their own early period of rapid industrialization.' Andrew G. 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