February 26, 2024 — Author Anne Stevenson-Yang discusses her new book Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy, where she provides front-row seat accounts of the events she experienced when she worked in China as an entrepreneur, lobbyist for U.S. business, publisher, tech startup founder, business commentator, and financial analyst for about three decades. She has also just published a collection of short fiction set in China titled Hello, Kitty and Other Stories. Yang first went to China in 1985, where she was enchanted by the lively cultural scene and what seemed to be the growing openness of the country’s political system. But there’s very little of that optimism left. Jeremy Goldkorn, editorial fellow with ChinaFile, moderates the conversation. (30 min., 43 sec.)