Prosperity
A 'moderately prosperous society' with no Chinese individual left behind--that's the vision for China set out by Chinese President Xi Jinping in a number of important speeches in 2017. 'Moderate' prosperity may seem like a modest goal for a country with more billionaires (60...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Acton, A.C.T.
ANU Press
2018, 2018©2018
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| Series: | China story yearbook
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | A 'moderately prosperous society' with no Chinese individual left behind--that's the vision for China set out by Chinese President Xi Jinping in a number of important speeches in 2017. 'Moderate' prosperity may seem like a modest goal for a country with more billionaires (609 at last count) than the US. But the 'China Story' is a complex one. The China Story Yearbook 2017: Prosperity surveys the important events, pronouncements, and personalitites that defined 2017. It also presents a range of perspectives, from the global to the individual, the official to the unofficial, from mainland China to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Together, the stories present a richly textured portrait of a nation that in just forty years has lifted itself from universal poverty to (unequally distributed) wealth, changing itself and the world in the process |
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| Physical Description: | xxix, 365 pages chiefly colour illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781760462024 1760462020 |