Industrial Party

I don't know whether you've heard about it.

It's called the Industrial Party.

which is a kind of, you know, a group of people believing that industrialization is the way to modernize China and to make China great again,

essentially.

It's like,

and further industrialization, that's the only thing China should pursue.

So it's like there was, Fudan University even published a special issue on like, you know, the industrial party.

And that work has been mentioned there.

She was last on the show in January, I think it was, to talk about her Wired piece, where she was writing for Wired magazine for their big China issue.

She wrote a great piece on the Morning Star of Linggao, the sprawling crowdsourced time travel novel that serves as the kind of urtext, as we said on the show, of China's industrial party, the Gongyedang, the loose online ideological current, I guess, movement, I don't know, that treats engineering capability and manufacturing-led growth differently.

not just as the true source of national wealth and power, but as something close to a creed.

They make a fetish of getting the tech tree completely right.