Prosperity

Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin

• Publisher: ANU Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781760462024
• eBook ISBN: 9781760462031
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• 1. The Nineteenth Party Congress: Here Comes the Future
• 2. The Belt and Road Intiative: How to Win Friends and Influence People
• 3. North Korea: A Year of Crisis
• 4. China’s Power, the United States, and the Future of Australia
• 5. Precarious Wealth: The Search for Status and Security
• 6. Magic Cities, Future Dreams — Urban Contradictions
• 7. To Prosper or Perish
• 8. Human Rights in the Age of Properity
• 9. Prosperity and Freedom: Hong Kong’s Dilemma
• Chronology
• Notes
• Contributors
• Online Material
• List of Information Windows
• Previous China Story Yearbooks