Authors:

  • Elizabeth J. Perry

Excerpt

Growing Pains: Challenges for a Rising China. Elizabeth J. Perry, April 2014, Paper. "The accumulative achievements of China’s ongoing socioeconomic reforms are by most measures little short of astounding. From one of the globe’s poorest countries at the time of Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has become a booming economy–second biggest in the world–thanks to a swift rise that has rescued hundreds of millions of its people from poverty and afforded the government enviable resources for further development..." Link Verified October 12, 2014