Book review

How Janet Yellen came to teach a Chinese hard labourer economics

A Beijing boy's escape from digging ditches in the desert to lecturing at Wharton: Weijian Shan’s memoir Out of the Gobi makes for an inspiring holiday read.

Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia

Alison Tudor-Ackroyd

July 25, 2019

Weijian Shan’s book reads like the classic tale of the American Dream, but with a twist: it starts in communist China.

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