Four decades after the death of the "great helmsman" Mao Zedong, China has turned into its own opposite - a backward and closed agrarian country with a totalitarian dictatorship has become one of the most open and fastest growing industrial economies in the world. How did it happen? How China Became Capitalist is a brief essay on the dismantling of Chinese totalitarianism by Ronald Coase, the author of the main economic discoveries of the 20th century, Nobel laureate.Publisher's layout preserved in a4.pdf format.