Prosperity.

Intro -- Introduction -- Money Changes Everything -- Acknowledgements -- The Cover Image -- Forum -- Wine, Gods, and Morning Dew -- Toppling Liu Xiaobo -- 1. The Nineteenth Party Congress: Here Comes the Future -- Forum -- Saviours and Slackers -- Ode to Joy -- 2. The Belt and Road Intiative: How to Win Friends and Influence People -- Forum -- When Not to Respect Your Elders -- Shangri-la and the Curse of Xi Jinping -- Kangbashi: The Richest 'Ghost Town' in China -- 3. North Korea: A Year of Crisis -- Forum -- Peripheral Trouble: The Sino-Indian Standoff -- Asian Powers in Africa: Win, Win, Win, Win? -- 4. China's Power, the United States, and the Future of Australia -- Forum -- Dreams of Prosperity in Papua New Guinea -- The Chinese Dreams of Arabian Traders in Yiwu -- A Shared Destiny: Dungans and the New Silk Road -- 5. Precarious Wealth: The Search for Status and Security -- Forum -- The End of Ivory -- Feasting on Donkey Skin -- Hey Big Spender: China's Luxury Travellers -- 6. Magic Cities, Future Dreams - Urban Contradictions -- Forum -- To Give is Glorious -- The Pyscho Boom -- Doing Well, Dying Well -- 7. To Prosper or Perish -- Forum -- Arguing with Robots -- 8. Human Rights in the Age of Properity -- Forum -- Death Penalty Reform -- Criminal Villages and Roving Crime -- Rethinking China's Agriculture -- 9. Prosperity and Freedom: Hong Kong's Dilemma -- Forum -- Taiwan: Seventy Years On - A Difficult Anniversary -- Rainbow Connections -- Chronology -- Notes -- Contributors -- Online Material -- List of Information Windows -- Previous China Story Yearbooks.

The China Story Yearbook 2017: Prosperity surveys the important events, pronouncements, and personalitites that defined 2017.

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