There's an economist from Tsinghua University named Patrick Chovanec who used to do an amazing job of documenting China's explosive growth and the many ways in which it might have been artificially inflated (easy credit, shadow banking, fudged numbers, empty skyscrapers, etc.).
His blog is still up, but unfortunately he switched from blogging to Tweeting in 2013 and it's been impossible to follow his train of thought since then. It's a pretty fascinating read (assuming you find dry economic posts fascinating) if you start sometime around the 2009 entries and go from there: https://chovanec.wordpress.com/
His blog is still up, but unfortunately he switched from blogging to Tweeting in 2013 and it's been impossible to follow his train of thought since then. It's a pretty fascinating read (assuming you find dry economic posts fascinating) if you start sometime around the 2009 entries and go from there: https://chovanec.wordpress.com/
Some of the ones I found most interesting:
Beijing’s Bad Debt Bailout: Problem Solved? https://chovanec.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/beijings-bad-debt-...
Big Losses Hidden on China’s Bank Balance Sheets: https://chovanec.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/big-losses-hidden-...
Even though they're almost a decade old they still give you an interesting look into how things work in China.