Was sick this week, but helped prepare food [Tamales] for Christmas dinner tomorrow. Also watched Home Alone finally. It was good. In total I’m preparing to try to be productive again after tomorrow, working on that trial report, organizing notes and files and such, and reading more.

Cheng Enfu is a CPC economist and director of the Chinese academy of marxism who translates a lot of his stuff into English [in fact i think he does so himself if i remember right]. I’ve only read “China’s Economic Dialectic: The original aspirations of reform” so far, but he also has a couple textbooks titled “Modern Political Economy; a new coursebook” and “the creation of value by living labor.” China’s Economic Dialectic is available from international publishers while the course books are available from Canut Press, so luckily you don’t have to use Amazon for him.

Edit: Springer also publishes a series of textbooks called “China Insights.” I haven’t read them yet, but they’re written and translated by Chinese authors which is definitely nice compared to what you usually get. Springer gives institutional access, but all [or at least some of the books] are available on sci-hub.

I find it interesting how there were [and still are] many parallels between Chinese and Japanese business cultures since the reform and opening up began. But China changes [for the better] while Japan has reamined mostly the same, even with the coming and going of generations and economic boons and, mostly, busts.

That’s fair.

I think probably starting off with an example could help, with people unfamiliar with that type of crowd. It’s not like “oh my god i cannot believe the author would do that” thing, but probably would clarify a bit.