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Chaos to Prosperity, Encounters with a Changing China

In the summer of 1967 two friends and I visited the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. We were graduate students in a US-funded program on east-west relations and eager to get a Chinese perspective. Received with awkward formality, we were escorted to a reception room and told to wait while our host excused himself, returning a few minutes later with three English-language editions of the … Continue reading Chaos to Prosperity, Encounters with a Changing China

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Shenzhen–Where China’s Economic Miracle Began

Shenzhen, 2019 In 1980 Shenzhen was an unimportant fishing village adjacent to Hong Kong’s new territories. Its population was 30,000.  Today Shenzhen on a per capita basis is China’s richest city. Its population is 13 million, having become the world’s fastest growing city ever. Shenzhen is a technology center–headquarters for Huawei and Tencent. It has the world’s 4th biggest container port and China’s 5th busiest airport.   During … Continue reading Shenzhen–Where China’s Economic Miracle Began

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