Parts of China did, parts did not. The income inequality is really quite striking for what's notionally a communist worker's paradise. A few years back I was i

Parts of China did, parts did not. The income inequality is really quite striking for what's notionally a communist worker's paradise. A few years back I was in Xining, an obscure third-tier provincial capital. The main shopping street could have been Tokyo.or Seoul, full of neon, fancy brands and expensive restaurants. But you walk one single block out and you're in a street market with flies buzzing around sheep heads and slabs of meat hanging off hooks.