China is a complex, diverse and beautiful country with a rich cultural and culinary heritage. During the past two decades, China has taken on and achieved the monumental task of becoming an economic superpower, as it was for much of its history.
But this astounding progress has come at a price. China catapulted to power by joining, and excelling in, the Western game of economies of scale, technological intervention, and globalized business.
Meanwhile, during these same decades, the Western world has gradually become aware of the unsustainability of some of its own …