Volume 40, Number 15 · September 23, 1993
The Chinese Miracle?
By Jonathan D. Spence
China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development
by Vaclav Smil
M.E. Sharpe/East Gate Books, 257 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Over the last few months the news and reportage about China have become almost incomprehensibly divided between two points of view. According to one set of reports, China is now confirmed as an economic 'colossus,' shaking off all the trammels of the past, yearning to host the Olympics in the year 2000, a haven for speculative growth investments in real estate and transport 'infrastructures,' bursting at the seams with raw industrial and technical energy, and with a huge dedicated work force ready, at low wages, to multiply their own and foreign investors' profits at exponential rates.[1]
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