原书——纸质版：江苏文艺出版社2014第1版；电子版：江苏文艺出版社2015第1版——共有28处删改部分，为不影响书友们阅读体验，未在开头特别说明。删改部分在书中以注释方式给出，并整理在此页，特供有需要的书友对照参考。

[*1] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【In today’s China (as in the old Soviet Union), it consists of all voting members of the Communist Party;】。

[*2] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【Strange as it may seem, the same ideas and subtle differences that held true in San Francisco can be applied to illiberal governments like Zimbabwe, China, and Cuba, and even to the more ambiguous sorts of governments like current-day Russia or Venezuela or Singapore.】。

[*3] 中文版原书中为【其他某些国家】，英文原文为【At that same income, a Chinese couple’smarginal tax rate is 45 percent.】。

[*4] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【They may also prove to be dismal failures, as was true for Kwame Nkrumah’s civic-minded industrial program in Ghana or Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, which turned out to be a great leap backwards for China.】。

[*5] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【Equally, he and many others must have known that it was much better to cross swords with Gorbachev, an intellectual reformer, than with such contemporaries as Mobutu SeseSeko of Zaire or even Deng Xiaoping of China.】。

[*6] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【Deng, after all, used ruthless force to end the prodemocracy uprising at Tiananmen Square in 1989.】。

[*7] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【In China, a family with an income of $32,400 is expected to pay about $6,725 in income tax.】。

[*8] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【His Chinese counterpart, Huang Guangyu, also known as Wong Kwong Ku, fared little better. Starting with nothing but $500 and a street cart, Guangyu created Gome, the largest electrical retailer in China. He was repeatedly ranked as China’s richest individual—until he was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for bribery. It is likely that he was guilty since bribery is commonplace in Chinese business dealings. It is also likely that he and others who have been prosecuted for corruption in China were “chosen for political reasons.”】。

[*9] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【China’s prolonged economic growth seems to have verified that belief (at least for now).】。

[*10] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【The People’s Republic of China is the poster boy for this view. When Deng Xiaoping introduced economic liberalization to China in the 1980s, experts in wealthy Western countries contended that now China’s economy would grow and the growth would lead to rapid democratization. Today, more than thirty years into sustained rapid growth we still await these anticipated political reforms. Growth does not guarantee political improvement but neither does it preclude it. The Republic of China (aka Taiwan) and the Republic of Korea (aka South Korea) are models of building prosperity ahead of democracy. Needless to say, the People’s Republic of China certainly is not fond of promoting either of those countries’ experiences.】。

[*11] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【China】。

[*12] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【Despite its size, and not counting universities in Hong Kong, which were established under British rule before Hong Kong’s return to China in 1997, the best-ranked Chinese university is only in 47th place despite China’s opportunity to draw top minds from its vast population.】。

[*13] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【It is incredible to see how easily leaders can take people’s property in the People’s Republic of China and how hard it is to do the same in Hong Kong.】。

[*14] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【and China’s Three Gorges Dam】。

[*15] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【China, like Chile, suffered a 7.9 earthquake of its own. It struck in May 2008, bringing down many shoddily constructed schools and apartment buildings, killing nearly 70,000. Even accounting for variations in Chile’s and China’s populations and incomes, it is impossible to reconcile the difference between China’s death toll and Chile’s, except by reflecting on the incentives to enforce proper building standards in democratic Chile—incentives missing in autocratic China and Iran.】。

[*16] 中文版原书中为【李光耀】，英文原文为【But unlike Mao, Mikhail, and Nikita, Deng belongs squarely in the hall of fame.】。

[*17] 中文版原书中不存在，英文原文为【Like them, he was not accountable to the people and, like them, he was not hesitant to put down mass movements against his rule. The horrors of Tiananmen Square should not be forgotten.】。

[*18] 中文版原书中为【李光耀】，英文原文为【But unlike his fellow dictators, he actually had good ideas about how to improve economic performance.】。