How China Remade Global Trade — and Then Broke It

How China Remade Global Trade — and Then Broke It

Globalization is perhaps best explained not with statistics, but with a pair of foods beloved in China.  Consider Shenyang’s chicken racks and Wuhan’s duck necks — two dishes born directly from trade. In the 1990s, Liaoning’s poultry plants exported white-feathered chickens to Japan. Japanese consumers rejected the racks — the leftover frames stripped of meat — so they were sold cheaply to local workers in Shenyang, who turned them into a beer s…