WSJ Interview with Yang Jisheng

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Bret Stephens, 杨继绳：在北京读哈耶克. 華爾街日報中文網, May 29, 2013
http://cn.wsj.com/gb/20130530/opn072647.asp

, which is translated from

Bret Stephens, Reading Hayek in Beijing; A chronicler of Mao's depredations finds much to worry about in modern China. Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2013 (in the Saturday column Weekend Interview with Yang Jisheng)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 01492191072734.html

Quote:

"Now 72 and a resident of Beijing, he's in New York this month to receive the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Prize for 'Tombstone.'

"'Ten million workers get laid off in the state-owned enterprise reforms,' he explains. 'So many people are dissatisfied with the reforms. Then they become nostalgic and think the Mao era was much better. Because they never experienced the Mao era!'

Note:
(a) Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research
("Established in 2005, the annual Hayek Prize 'honors the book published within the past two years that best reflects Friedrich von Hayek's vision of economic and individual liberty.' Winning authors deliver that year's Hayek Lecture and are awarded a $50,000 prize")
(b) Hayek is "[a]ltered spelling of Czech Hájek, a topographic name for someone living by a copse or small wood, hájek."
Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.
(c) The Road to Serfdom
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom
(the title was inspired by the writings of the 19th century French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville on the “road to servitude;" first published in Britain in 1944)
(d)
(i) 杨继绳, 墓碑; 中國六十年代大饑荒紀實. Hong Kong: Cosmos Books 天地圖書, 2008.
(ii) YANG Jisheng, Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine. Allen Lane, 2012.
(e) "'China's economy is not what [Party leaders] claim as the "socialist-market economy,"' he says. 'It's a 'power-market' economy.'"

power-market economy  权力市场经济 (权力进入市场)