China as Savior of the Oppressed?

Kudos to Gregory Clark, chairman of the Economics department at University of California at Davis. He wrote an interesting book review in The Chronicle Review entitled "China as the Antidote to Oppression and Exploitation?" The book being criticized is Johns Hopkins University sociologist professor Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing. I admit I've not read the book myself (and don't plan to). But I found many of the points Clark makes to be strong ones and contrary to so much rubbish still being spouted by academic leftists (that seem to dominate so many fields, including sociology). Such writings are often as Clark describes this book... "little more than an extended anti-market, anti-capitalism, anti-Western harangue."