The Shenzhen Experiment
2020 book by Juan Du / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China's Instant City is a 2020 non-fiction book by Juan Du, published by Harvard University Press.
Du argued that there was a misconception that Shenzhen was built almost entirely by the central government when officials from Guangdong province had first advocated for the idea of making Shenzhen a "special economic zone". Additionally, the book addresses a misconception that the entirety of what is now Shenzhen was only occupied by fishing villages prior to 1979. Furthermore, Du explained that the SEZ was meant not to make China extremely wealthy but to take China out of a lower income category.[1]
Du advocated for more historical preservation in future urban planning in China.[2]
According to Denise Y. Ho[note 1] of Yale University, it was the first specialist work about the city that is an entire book.[3]