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China may be very different from Japan in terms of culture and industrial history, but I'm not so sure China's current industrial evolution is that different from the US.

If you read books about the US's industrial revolution (both modern ones and ones written during the era), I'm sure you can find a lot of parallels with modern China (even with issues such as IP - Charles Dickens was angry seeing bootleg copies of his books in the US)