Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.
Older Chinese who have survived the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution and other tumultuous events are not so naive as to stand idly by as their government fails to effectively cope with the country’s property slump.
