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China's Great Economic Transformation Loren Brandt, Thomas G. Rawski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

OECD Observer: Sections » Economy » General . The pace of economic change in China has been extremely rapid since the start of economic reforms just over 25 years ago. Stories from the Front Lines of China's Great Urban Migration of eight such migrants—including a vegetable vendor, an itinerant knife sharpener, a free-spirited recycler, and a cash-strapped mother—offering an inside look at the pain, self-sacrifice, and uncertainty underlying China's dramatic national transformation. Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China's urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel the country's staggering economic growth. Strategic Horizon 1B: The U.S.-China relationship will be central to international relations in the twenty-first century, as the two great Asia-Pacific powers compete, coexist, and cooperate across the full spectrum of national capabilities. Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), 206-09; Richard J. Traditionally, Chinese culture has been a culture of rule. Although the enormous potential of China's consumer market can provide a new impetus for economic growth, the country's economic transformation cannot succeed unless it upgrades its manufacturing sector. Over the last 30 years, the expansion of the Chinese economy and the transformation of its social structure has provided rich soil for the development of Chinese sociology. There is no possibility that we can build a harmonious society without the transformation of the cross. There will be a third great revival of Chinese culture. In turn Sociologists must pay great attention to all these problems.