Chasing the Chinese Dream : : Four Decades of Following China's War on Poverty.

• Author: Brown, William N.
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- New Nation, Ancient Ways -- Contents -- Part I One Dream, Many Dreamers -- 1 How My Chinese Dream Began -- Exploring the Countryside -- Give Fish or Teach to Fish -- 20,000 Km in 32 Days -- Barefoot First Party Secretaries -- 2 Ningde: Xi Jinping's Training Ground for Governing the Country -- Roads First, then Prosperity -- Young Xi Jinping Gets to the Roots of Poverty -- No Patience with Tinkers -- Precision Dreaming -- Greening While Growing -- A Heart for Ningde Minorities -- Sea Gypsies Go Ashore -- New Life for Nantang Village's She Minorities -- Xiadang Village Coop -- 3 Lin Zhengjia: China's Kung Fu Tunnel Expert with Artitude -- Barefoot Country Boy Dreams Big -- Pingtan Island: Home of World's First Seafaring Explorers -- Kung Fu Confidence -- Struggle Succeeds Thanks to Reform and Opening up -- Fujian Dream: Love of Home -- Battling Goliaths Together -- China's First Undersea Tunnel -- From Commerce to Culture -- Superior Culture, Leading Spirits -- 4 Prof. Hu Min, Scholar Entrepreneur and "Father of IELTS in China" -- From Meritocracy to Global Competency -- Hu Min's Greatest Influence -- 15-Year-Old University Student -- Starting from Scratch in Beijing -- Doubts and Depression -- Remember Your First Love -- New Channel's New Mission -- Stories of China Retold in English Project -- Community of Human Destiny -- Hu Min's Five Magic Weapons for Success -- Ballroom Dancing Inner Mongolia Blacksmith -- 5 Cui Rui, Philosopher, Blacksmith in Inner Mongolia -- Born in Old China, Thriving in New China -- Blacksmithing in the Blood -- Can't Cook Without a Cleaver! -- Ballroom Dancing Blacksmith -- Resurrecting Legendary Techniques -- Like Father, Like Son -- Two Treasures the Secret to Life -- 6 Mr. Tian Ye Frees Ningxia's "Frogs in a Well" -- Young Xi Jinping Led Fujian to Ningxia -- Xiamen University Partners with Ningxia.

Mr. Tian Ye: A Passion for Fighting Poverty -- Replacing Mud-Wall Death Traps -- No Roads, No Houses -- If Son Doesn't Care, Why Do You? -- No Place to Cook -- Dying Without Regret -- First-To the Doorsteps! -- Roads Lead Out-And Back Home Again -- No Longer just Frogs in a Well -- 7 Gansu's Teacher Yan Guizhen I Love Because I Was Loved! -- Leading the Global Desertification Battle -- Coping with Unequal Regional Growth -- Longing to Study -- One Room School -- Decision to Teach -- Journey to the West -- Generous to Others, Frugal with Self -- Like-Minded Husband -- Lady in Green -- 200,000 Yuan Teacher's Day Award -- Yan Guizhen Charity Education Foundation -- Reaching Beyond Jiayuguan -- Afterwards -- 8 Mr. Liang Nanyu: Bringing Life to Tibet's Dead Zone -- Clinging to Life in the Dead Zone -- No People Left Behind -- Understanding the Terrain, Sun Zi's Art of War -- Step 1: Health then Wealth -- Step 2: Guerrilla Warfare Education Strategy -- Step 3: Industrial Development (Eco-Nomads) -- Eco Nomads -- Shuanghu Person, but "Three Fears, Three Sames" -- China's 5th Great Invention at Work -- 9 Yixi Danzeng: A Young Tibetan's Chinese Dream -- Xiamen University's First Tibetan -- Giving Back to the Motherland -- Deeply Rooted in China -- New Life Through Education -- Entrepreneurial Tibet -- Tibet's New Passion for Education -- Tibet's Future-Prosperous and Inclusive -- 10 Yang Yuanjian: Barefoot Teacher to Tibetans -- Teaching in the Blood -- Unexpected Football Coach -- Passionate Teacher, Passionate Students -- Volunteering for Ganzi -- Hands-on Education -- Another Year? -- Teaching Tibetans About Tibetan Dance -- Hazards of High Altitude Life -- Embracing Other Cultures -- Farewell, Ganzi -- Falling for Tibetan Humor -- 11 Feng Yougen, Chairman of Panlong Group: "I'm the Son of a Flower Farmer!" -- Plunging into the Ocean of Competition.

Nine-Tailed Fox Returns to Flowers -- New Era, New Agriculture -- Win-Win for Villagers -- Knowledge Is the Best Charity -- Passionate About Education -- Passion Plus Principles -- China's Future? -- 12 Eighteen Caves Village: We Can Do This by 2020! -- The Nation's Big Sister -- Yang Chaowen: Mr. Eighteen Caves Village -- Happy Family Nongjiale -- The Source of Happy Family -- 13 Prosperity Comes to Lisu Land -- Planet's Most Musical Minority -- Axing the Doors -- Passionate Barefoot First Secretary -- Mr. Zhao Yu: A Minority First Secretary -- Entrepreneurial Miss Hu Xiuhua -- Ecological Lisu -- 14 Zhou Dexin: Chasing the Dream with Mind, Body and Spirit -- How I Failed at Teaching English -- From XMU Maid to Millionaire Philanthropist -- XMU Gate Guard Scholar -- Indian Movie Sparks a Chinese Dream -- Losing the Dream -- XMU Rekindles Zhou's Dream -- "Bigger Utensil Takes Longer to Make" -- Zhou's Greatest Lesson -- Zhou's Chinese Dream -- Zhou Dexin's Philosophy of Life -- How China Enlightened Seventeenth Century Europe -- Part II China's 5th Great Invention: Art of Government -- 15 China's 5th Great Invention -- How China Influenced Western Government -- Ancient Scholar Bureaucrat Innovation -- Old China More Market-Driven Than Europe -- Growing and Greening -- Prosperity Helps Fight Poverty -- Why Fight Poverty? -- The Modern Mandate of Heaven -- China's Anti-poverty Straight from the Horse's Mouth -- 16 Dr. Huang Chengwei: Leading the Fight Against Poverty -- People-First Leadership -- Poverty Amidst Plenty Is Immoral -- Survival First -- World's First Universal Healthcare -- Reform and Opening up -- Fine-Tuning Poverty Alleviation -- Whole Village Promotion, Two Wheel Drive -- Garden City, Garden Villages -- 4,300+ Taobao Villages -- 17 Standing on Giants' Shoulders: Xi Jinping's Precision Poverty Alleviation -- Anti-Poverty No. 1.

Precision at All Levels -- Dr. Huang's Overview of Precision Poverty Alleviation -- Barefoot First Secretaries -- Precision Pummels Poverty -- Pride in Self and Nation -- Urban-Rural Citizen Exchanges -- 18 China's Anti-Poverty Lessons for the World -- China Surpasses Global Standards -- Learning from Mistakes: Less Aid, More Enable -- Vulnerability of Minorities -- Regional Inequity -- The No. 1 Lesson Is Leadership -- Transparency and Constant Reform -- Social Mobilization -- China Fights Poverty Abroad -- Self-Reliance: When Loess Becomes Gold -- East-West China, North South Hemisphere -- Three Ways Xi Jinping's Anti-Poverty Programs Influence the World -- Four Factors for Sustainability -- After 2020? -- Belt and Road Poverty Alleviation -- Supplement: Twenty-First Century Barefoot Doctors for the World -- 19 Raising Submerged Economies -- Blood Diamonds, Blood Opium -- Boston Built on Opium -- Opium Trade a Human Right? -- Coming Home to Roost: Opium Addiction in the West -- Catastrophe or Statistics? -- Blood Trade: Today's "Opium" -- Fair Trade, Not Aid -- Fair Trade: A Good Start -- Precision Poverty Alleviation Abroad Through BRI -- Part III Taking the Chinese Dream Global -- 20 China's Precision Urban Poverty Alleviation -- Lessons for the World -- Urban Apocalypse -- How Could Quanzhou Win the Gold? -- Does China Have Tall Buildings? -- Livcom Category One: Landscape Management -- Livcom Category Two: Heritage Management -- Livcom Category Three: Environmentally Sensitive Practices -- Livcom Category Four: Community Involvement -- Livcom Category Five: Healthy Lifestyle -- Livcom Category Six: Future Planning -- Precision Planning or Piecemeal Initiatives? -- 21 China's Confucian Moral Meritocracy: A Model for Tomorrow? -- Study the Past to Understand the Present -- The Generational Curse in Governance -- Confucius on Government.

Confucian Leadership by Example -- Taoist Government -- The Confucian School -- Confucian Societies Abroad? -- 22 The Ancient Ethics Behind New China's Success -- Optimism Rooted in "Superior Civilization" -- Ancient Ways of the Yellow River -- Deities of Self-Sufficiency -- Reality Outshines Myth -- Master of All Trades -- Cultivating a Philosophical Character -- Peace Rooted in Patriotism and Probity -- Confucian Work Ethic vs. Protestant Work Ethic -- 23 Confucian Capitalism and Innovation -- Cashpoor to Cashless -- Are Asia's Chinese False Capitalists? -- Harvard: China More Open and Market-Driven Than Europe -- From Rice Seller to Henry Ford of Asia -- 1930s "Typical Chinese Industrialist" -- Mainland Chinese as Formidable as Overseas Chinese -- Great Commercial and Cultural Crossroads -- Confucian Innovation in Business -- Confucian Education: Key to Innovation, Business and Government -- Innovative Confucian Government Today -- Confucian Engineer Leaders -- BRI: Taking Precision Poverty Alleviation to the World -- 24 China's Precision Pandemic Alleviation -- Priority Is People, Not Economy -- Safest Place on the Planet? -- Early Warnings Ignored -- Don't Wear Masks! -- Doctors Fired for Wearing Masks -- A Politicized Pandemic -- China's Secret: Pandemics Are War -- China's Steps -- Pan-Global Pandemic Response -- 25 BRI: Global Precision Poverty Alleviation -- Four Thousand Years of Foreign Trade -- Africa: Wealthiest and Poorest Continent -- China's New Hope for Africa -- Why Africa Respects China -- How the West Benefits from BRI -- The "Chinese Laborer in Africa" Myth -- The West's Skills Gap in Africa -- McKinsey: The Future Is Africa -- 26 Art of War, Way of Peace -- CCK Air Base, Taiwan, 1976 -- Confucian Peace -- Becoming Captain Elliott -- "International Complexities" of Drug Trafficking? -- Where Is China?.

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