A review of The Chinese Dream: The Rise of the World's Largest Middle Class and What It Means to You by Helen Wang. After 30 years of the one-child policy, why aren't there fewer Chinese people? How today's China resembles 19th century America. Cultivating the urge to splurge: Building a consumer society in China won’t be easy, but the health of the world economy depends on it. Richard McGregor on 5 myths about the Chinese Communist Party: Market-Leninism lives. Why Chinese teenagers don't speak Albanian: For some Beijingers, the Sino-Soviet split of the 1960s lingers on, but who has time for history? Mickey finds a new home: The first Disneyland on the Chinese mainland is expected to open in 2014. Are profits good reason for rebuilding a long-lost kingdom? An ancient Chinese kingdom largely lost over time may come alive again if the plans of a less developed county in Hunan Province are realized. Jeffrey Wasserstrom examines the current crop of books aiming to open Western eyes to China in this “post-post-Cold War Era”. Why don’t Chinese spend more money? The Rise of the Tao: China is in the grips of a religious revival, but can the country handle the return of its most venerable faith? Tariq Ali reviews Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World by Rebecca E Karl. China's new stealth fighter jet shouldn't make Americans worry. Neil Faulkner examines China's imperial history, where for two millennia political revolution did not lead to social transformation, but simply to the replacement of one dynasty by another.
