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...which played a significant role in the country’s rapid growth in both GDP and personal income. But those trends were reversed in the 1990s as the government financed urban development at the expense of rural enterprises, Huang said. The changes occurred in cities like Shanghai, which he called the “apex of economic inefficiency, waste, and government intervention.” Fan Zhang ’09, a board member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association, which sponsored the event, described the Chinese economy as a “hot topic?...
...through blogs specially set up for alumni. Sandel will also hold a two-hour long virtual office hour session, according to “Justice Online,” the Harvard Alumni Association’s Web site for the course. Twenty-one participating Harvard Clubs—from Shanghai to northeast Ohio—will also hold monthly discussion groups for alumni to talk about the course reading. Sandel, who has taught more than 12,000 students in his years offering “Justice,” wrote in an e-mailed statement that he intends to hold...
...want to know how the economic transformation will affect Chinese society. I don’t know enough about China now to have a strong sense of how China’s profoundly different culture will express itself in the twenty-first century, but if my two months in Shanghai this summer offered any glimpse at all, it is that the China of tomorrow may look something like a cross between the Manhattan and Las Vegas of today...
What gets you in Shanghai isn’t that between 1992 and today they’ve built twice as many skyscrapers as exist in New York City. Or that another 1,000 are slated for completion for the World Expo in 2010. (Construction is literally taking place around the clock on its tallest building, the Shanghai World Financial Center...
...distributor for Hong Kong before moving to New York City to run Ferragamo's U.S. flagship stores. But sensing the potential of China, Wong moved back to Hong Kong in 1992 and became the founding shareholder in ImagineX. By 1994 she had opened the first Maison Mode store in Shanghai. "Right up until 2000, ImagineX did not make money," Wong admits. "One must look at China long term." Her sights are now set beyond the big cities of Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou. "Chongqing is one of the most populated cities in the world, with nearly 32 million people. And there...