In Line Behind a Billion People · How Scarcity Will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade by Damien, M.A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

About This eBook Title Page Copyright Page Praise for In Line Behind a Billion People Dedication Page Contents Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction

Economic scarcity Social scarcity Political scarcity

Part I: Economic Scarcity

1. Resources: While supplies last

The Panda Boom Land: So much yet so little Energy: From industry to transport and residential Water

2. Food: Malthus on the Yangtze

Feeding one-fifth of humanity A diet for a land of plenty Hot and bothered...and thirsty Rise of the machines? From Happy Meals to deadly dinners

3. Labor: Where did all the migrants go?

Socialist employers’ paradise... ...Becomes socialist employers’ paradise, lost Migrants came, saw, and some are saying see ya later School of hard knocks What happens when your key economic input shrinks? When 150 million workers unite

Part II: Social Scarcity

Dismantling the welfare system... ...And stitching it back together From youth bulge to geriatric bulge Mo’ bling, mo’ honeys Serving the people

5. Education: Give me equality...but not until after my son gets into Tsinghua

A thought experiment: Turkmenbashi for a day No, seriously, there is a real thing called urban bias The social equalizer that isn’t From urban bias to urban household bias Turn on, tune in, and study abroad: Life at the top Running out of levers to pull

6. Housing: Home is where the wallet is

Phat cribs and fatter wallets When virtues become flaws Socialist property rights with Chinese characteristics Revenge of the capitalists Squeezed

Part III: Political Scarcity

7. Ideology: The unbearable lightness of the Yellow River Spirit

A young nation-state E pluribus mishmash What comes after a revolution? Forging the Deng Xiaoping consensus New slogans, same consensus The second identity crisis Nationalism to the rescue (sort of) Virtue is as virtuous does Searching for a distinctly Chinese paradigm?

8. Values: What would Confucius do?

Qu nar (or where to)? Software upgrades Pursuit of happiness Separate but unequal Governing post-materialist China: The “what have you done for me lately” problem China pushes back on values China the exceptional?

9. Freedom: Keep on rockin’ in the firewalled world

A decade of harmony? The “average Zhou” pushes back From 100 flowers to 100 million weibos Coloring outside the lines

Conclusion

All your (economic) base are belong to us Embracing change: the basecase Baby steps What if the Chinese dream is deferred?

Endnotes

Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Conclusion

Index