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Title Prosperity / edited by Jane Golley and Linda Jaivin
Published Acton, ACT : ANU Press, 2018
©2018

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Description xxiv, 365 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 21 cm
Series China story yearbook ; 2017
China story yearbook ; 2017
Contents Introduction Money changes everything / Jane Golley and Linda Javin -- Forum Wine, gods and morning dew / Chen Jingjing and Mark Strange -- Toppling Liu Xiaobo / Christopher Rea -- Chapter 1. Nineteenth Party Congress: here comes the future / Brian Martin -- Forum Culture of money -- Saviours and slackers / Linda Javin -- Ode to joy / William Sima -- Chapter 2. Belt and Rald Initiative: how to win friends and influence people / Jane Golley and Adam Ingle -- Froum When not to respect you elders / Tom Cliff -- Shangri-la and the curse of Xi Jinping / Ben Hillman -- Kangbashi: the richest 'ghost town' in China / Uchralt Otede -- Chapter 3. North Korea: a year of crisis / Sang Ye and Richard Rigby (translated by Linda Jinvin) -- Forum Power plays -- Peripheral trouble: the Sino-Indian standoff / Andrew Chubb -- Asian powers in Africa: win, win, win, win? / Brittany Morreale -- Chapter 4. China's power, the United States, and the future of Australia / Hugh White -- Forum Dreams of prosperity in Papua New Guinea / Graeme Smith -- Chinese dreams of Arabian traders in Yiwu / Wen Meizhen -- Shard destiny: dungans and the new silk road / Zhu Yujie -- Chapter 5. Precarious wealt: the search for status and security / Gerry Groot -- Forum End of ivory / Craig A. Smith -- Feasting on the donkey skin / Natalie Köhle -- Hey big spender; China's luxury travellers / Linda Javin -- Chapter 8. Magic cities, future dreams - urban connections / Carolyn Cartier -- Forum To give is glorious / Paul J. Farrelly -- Psycho boom / Huang Jusan-Ying -- Doing well, dying well / Benjamin Penny -- Chapter 7. To prosper or perish / Gloria Davies -- Forum Artifical intelligence -- Arguing with robots / Lorand Laskai -- Chapter 8. Human rights in the age of prosperity / Elisa Nesossi and Ivan Franceschini -- Froum: Those less fortunate -- Dealth penalty reform / Susan Trevaskes -- Criminal villages and roving crime / Børge Bakken -- Rethinking China's agriculture / Shi Xinjie -- Chapter 9. Prosperity and freedom: Hong Kong's dilemma / Antony Dapiran -- Forum Commemoration and celebration -- Taiwan: seventy years on - a difficult anniversary / Mark Harrison -- Rainbow connections / Paul J. Farrelly -- Chronology -- Notes -- Contributors -- Online matieral -- List of information windows -- Previous China story yearbooks
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
Notes "Australian Centre on China in the World"--Title page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-351)
Notes Also available online. Address as at 23 August 2018
System requirements to view online version: Internet connectivity and World Wide Web browser
This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
SUBJECT China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023
China -- Foreign relations -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007002707
China -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
China -- Social conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003000103
Author Golley, Jane, 1971- editor
Jaivin, Linda, 1955- editor
Australian Centre on China in the World.
ISBN 9781760462024 (paperback)