Chasing the Chinese Dream : Four Decades of Following China's War on Poverty.
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,
2021.
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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?.
- China: Ancient Military Power for Peace.