Outcomes

Alex Mackinnon and Barnaby Powell

Chapter Chapter 12 in China Counting, 2010, pp 172-180 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The year 2008 was a truly momentous one for China, and events and developments during the year prefigured the shape and character of the likely impact of its growth on the wider world. First, its response to crippling snowfalls over the Chinese New Year showed up painful inadequacies in its national road and rail networks, which prevented millions from returning home for their annual holiday. Then in May a devastating earthquake shattered much of Sichuan Province, killing hundreds of children as they sat in shoddily constructed school buildings. Bloody riots in Tibet exposed China’s major sore spot to the world, and then international protests marred their Olympic torch relay around the world before the triumphant and matchless success of the Games themselves in Beijing, crowned by China’s first spacewalk on its Shenzhou 7 earth orbital mission.

Keywords: Organize Crime; Chinese Communist Party; Rail Network; Taiwan Stock Exchange; Migrant Farm Worker (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230251038_13

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