Wealth and Power : China's Long March to the Twenty-First Century Aaron Craze together with maps old and

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the more ambitious of them hope their guesses will be right – or that they can somehow adapt to the turbulence that will arise

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Wealth and Power : China's Long March to the Twenty-First Century Aaron Craze together with maps old andThrough a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today's foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country's rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, manage to burst forth onto the world stage with such an