With Ghassan Moazzin (University of Hong Kong), Carmen Hofmann (eabh) talks about the integration of China into the world economy in the late 19th century. It's the time towards the end of the Imperial period in China. Did foreign actors impose Western capitalism or merely fill an ever growing institutional void and need for capital to finance reform and build critical infrastructure? Listen to Ghassan explain why the truth is likely to be found in the nuance of history. And what he thinks of China coming full circle with the Belt and Road Initiative...