South China Morning Post | 6 June, 2021

“The approach that China has taken in developing its own model suggests the China model can’t simply be exported,” said Weber, author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate.

New Statesman | 21 July, 2021

New Statesman | 27 July, 2021

“Weber’s new book is as good as everyone is saying it is”. Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze | 11 July, 2021

“Weber argues that the stability of the CCP regime today owes much to the rejection of shock therapy a la Russe... Instead China opted for a gradualist program of price liberalization ... This more cautious and ultimately far more successful approach was justified in the eyes of CCP experts by concerns about inflation. And that in turn owed much to the lessons learned by the Communists during the period of World War II and the civil war.”

La Grand Continent | 23 June, 2021

New Left Review | 1 June, 2021

“As Isabella Weber documents for the 1980s in How China Escaped Shock Therapy (2021), the balancing act of the CCP road to capitalism was grounded in a debate about the strategy of market reforms. On several occasions, the option of full-blown liberalization was considered, but ultimately set aside.”

Foreign Policy | 15 Jan, 2021

“In her forthcoming book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy, Isabella Weber demonstrates that China made an explicit choice in the 1980s to shun Friedman’s free market radicalism in favor of Galbraith’s pragmatism and gradualism. China’s post-Mao-era planners made a detailed study of American wartime price controls …and maintained a central role for large state-owned but autonomously managed corporations in their development strategy.”

Daily Gazette | 20 May, 2021

China Channel | 25 June, 2021

woz.ch | 3 September, 2020