| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 365 pages) : chiefly colour illustrations |
| Series |
China story yearbook ; 2017 |
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China story yearbook ; 2017
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| Contents |
Introduction: Money changes everything / Jane Golley and Linda Jaivin -- Forum -- Wine, gods, and morning dew / Chen Jingjing and Mark Strange -- Toppling Liu Xiaobo / Christopher Rea -- The Nineteenth Party Congress: here comes the future / Brian Martin -- Forum: The culture of money -- Saviours and slackers / Linda Jaivin -- Ode to joy / William Sima -- The belt and road initiative: how to win friends and influence people / Jane Golley and Adam Ingle -- Forum: Borderlands -- When not to respect your leader / Tom Cliff -- Shangri-la and the curse of Xi Jinping / Ben Hillman -- Kangbashi: the richest 'ghost town' in China? / Uchralt Otede -- North Korea: a year of crisis / Sang Ye and Richard Rigby -- Forum: Power plays -- Peripheral trouble: the Sino-Indian standoff / Andrew Chubb -- Asian powers in Africa: win, win, win, win? / Brittany Morreale -- China's power, the United States, and the future of Australia / Hugh White -- Forum: All I have to do is dream -- Dreams of prosperity in Papua New Guinea / Graeme Smith -- The Chinese dreams of Arabian traders in Yiwu / Wen Meizhen -- A shared destiny: Dungans and the new Silk Road / Zhu Yujie -- Precarious wealth: the search for status and security / Gerry Groot -- Forum: Conspicuous consumption -- The end of ivory / Craig A. Smith -- Feasting on donkey skin / Natalie Köhle -- Hey big spender: China's luxury travellers / Linda Jaivin -- Magic cities, future dreams: urban contradictions / Carolyn Cartier -- Forum: You can't take it with you -- To give is glorious / Paul J. Farrelly -- The psycho room / Huang Hsuan-Ying -- Doing well, dying well / Benjamin Penny -- Prosper or perish / Gloria Davies -- Forum: Artificial intelligence -- Arguing with robots / Lorand Laskai -- Human rights in the age of prosperity / Elisa Nesossi and Ivan Franceschini -- Forum: Those less fortunate -- Death penalty reform / Susan Trevaskes -- Criminal villages and roving crime / Børge Bakken -- Rethinking China's agriculture / Shi Xinjie -- Prosperity and freedom: Hong Kong's dilemma / Antony Dapiran -- Forum: A commemoration and a celebration -- Taiwan: seventy years on: a difficult anniversary / Mark Harrison -- Rainbow connections / Paul J. Farrelly |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
China.
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Central government policies.
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Economic growth.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Asian.
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Diplomatic relations
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023
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China -- Social conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003000103
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China -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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China -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007002707
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| Subject |
China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Golley, Jane, 1971- editor
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Jaivin, Linda, 1955- editor
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Australian National University Press
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Australian Centre on China in the World
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| ISBN |
9781760462031 |
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1760462039 |
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