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The Southern TourBook

by Jonathan Chatwin

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Adam Tooze
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
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My second suggestion is uh is uh sorry is Jonathan Chhatwin's uh book the southern tour which is uh an extraordinary account of Deniaing's uh tour of southern China in 1992 in the moment when after the repression of gentleman square in ' 89 he revives the reform and opening up project. So this legendary moment in the economic reform process that has made modern China. And the third suggestion is is poetry. I love poetry.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “How the World Sees America, With Adam Tooze” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-adam-tooze.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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