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Comment (Ted Koppel doesn’t actually cover much geographic ground in “The People’s Republic of Capitalism,” his four-part look at change in China on the Discovery Channel, but he seems a bit like a traveler who has lost his Fodor’s. The series ricochets so much — from big point to factoid to personal story — that it never does quite figure out where it’s going.
Skip to next paragraph RelatedTed Koppel Tours a China Brimming With Dreams and Consumerism (July 8, 2008)Yet that doesn’t mean it has nothing to offer. The transformation of China, at least in terms of consumerism, into a super-size United States has already been noted and thoroughly commented on, so this effort, an installment of the “Koppel on Discovery” series, wasn’t destined to be full of fresh insights anyway. But some of the tidbits that Mr. Koppel and his crew unearth as they focus on the booming city of Chongqing,...
