How China Escaped Shock Therapy Madison Safer 'Lucky Creatures is a vibrant

'Lucky Creatures is a vibrant intervention into the literary landscape – a playful and moving collection from one of Aotearoa's most exciting new voices

is eerily relevant to our current dark times―offers a child’s-eye view of a society beset by dictators

they learn to be the best of friends

Retelling the biblical story of the binding of Isaac

open-ended approach to narrative she developed in later years

How China Escaped Shock Therapy Madison Safer 'Lucky Creatures is a vibrantChina has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the countrys rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped Chinas path. In the first post Mao decade, Chinas reformers were sharply divided. They agreed that China had to reform its economic system and move toward more marketizationbut struggled over