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In the following chapters, explore a "dramatis personae of eleven iconic intellectuals and leaders, reformers and revol READ MORE...
A Qing official before the Opium Wars, Wei Yuan was one of the first Chinese thinkers to discuss the growing power gulf READ MORE...
Feng Guifen spent his career studying how China could learn from the Western "barbarians," his neighbors in 1860's Shang READ MORE...
Mother of the Tongzhi Emperor, Dowager Empress Cixi was China's de facto ruler for nearly fifty years. Despite READ MORE...
Liang Qichao inspired China to think about casting aside China's millennia old traditions to make room for new ways of t READ MORE...
Sun Yat-sen was China's first president and remains China's most international leader, as comfortable in the West as in READ MORE...
Despite founding the Chinese Communist Party, Chen Duxiu receives less attention than his successor, Mao Zedong. A tower READ MORE...
As leader of the Nationalist Party after Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek both unified and lost China. Chiang proved unable READ MORE...
From helping China's leading radicals check out books as a librarian at Peking University, Mao rose to take command of C READ MORE...
Mao's obsession with eradicating China's cultural roots led to tragedy: millions of lives were lost in his pursuit of "p READ MORE...
With Chinese weary of Mao's "permanent revolution," Deng Xiaoping began a new craze–for making money. Taking charge of READ MORE...
Unlike Cixi, Sun Yat-sen or Mao, Deng Xiaoping left no grand mausoleum behind. Deng's "monument" was China's restoration READ MORE...
In his ten years running China's economy, Zhu Rongji achieved explosive growth. But Zhu never dared touch China's politi READ MORE...
Wealth and Power ends with a different perspective, that of Nobel Peace Prize winner and dissident Liu Xiaobo. READ MORE...
Orville and John wrap up the story of Wealth and Power with a few last words.
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