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China's Crony Capitalism : The Dynamics of Regime Decay Gothic or seeking silent retreatsWhen Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build socialism with Chinese characteristics. More than three decades later, Chinas efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working peoples paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing social tensions. Chinas Crony Capitalism traces the origins of