How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

Yuen Yuen Ang delivers a government-focused history of Chinese economic policies and development since the founding of the PRC. While I would've liked to see more about the role that entrepreneurs and businesses played in development, the inside view of how different regions were able to roll out and experiment with different policy approaches was very interesting. Beyond that, the appendices in this book are amazing. Seriously. The first gets into the challenges and pitfalls with measuring economic development (and measurement more broadly), while the second gets deep into qualitative research methods. Highly recommend.