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...modernist mantras. The secular zeal of Turkey's nation-builders runs in my blood. As an air force pilot, my grandfather fought alongside Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, in the country's war for independence. After it was won in 1923, his job was to help build Turkey's first fleet of biplanes. My grandmother was what's called an "Ataturk girl" - like many others, she was put on a train to Germany, on her own at age 13, and told to study because the nascent republic needed educated women. Needless to say, they did not wear head...
...Build It, Will They Come...
...this place out of nothing, the payoff is as close to a matter of fact as any investment can be. Listen to Guo Guangchang, the co-founder and CEO of Fosun Group - whose subsidiary, Forte, is one of the primary developers here - and the message is clear: if you build it, they will come...
...Consider Qiu Haiyan, 22, from Henan, a province in central China with an average per capita income of $1,100 per year. She first found her way here working on a barge that carries bricks up the river that flows past our house. Qiu has the build of an Olympic weight lifter, with thick, powerful legs, and she and other work-gang members would offload the bricks on a wide wooden plank attached to a rope that they would sling across their shoulders. The subcontractor who built our development estimates he used about 70,000 bricks at Emerald Riverside...
...place to move to, another job to go to. It's not the people living the Great Chinese Dream - with the new house and the car and the dog and maybe a second child on the way - that the government needs to worry about. It's the people who build that dream for others, and then move on, hoping to do it again somewhere else. They, too, are vested in the country's economic miracle. But should that miracle somehow turn sour, look...