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The China story you should pay attention to

From Daedalus, Elizabeth J. Perry (Harvard): Growing Pains: Challenges for a Rising China. From The Economist, a special report on China; and an essay on what China wants: As China becomes, again, the world's largest economy, it wants the respect it enjoyed in centuries past — but it does not know how to achieve or deserve it. China’s crisis is coming — the only question is how big it will be. Is China the fastest rising power in history? China may seem to be catching up with U.S. GDP — however, its statistics are distorted by political manipulation. James Fallows on the China story you should pay attention to, and the one you should ignore. The Postcapital Economy: Izabella Kaminska on how China’s command-like economy may be better suited to cope with technologically driven abundance. Ming Du (Lancaster): When China's National Champions Go Global: Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself? Geir Sigurdsson (Iceland): Frugalists, Anti-consumers, and Prosumers: Chinese Philosophical Perspectives on Consumerism. Jamal Munshi (Sonoma State): The Private Sector in China. Warner Brown on mapping the four C's of Chinese wealth: Live in a city near China's coast, and in a capital. China’s losers: Amid spreading prosperity, a generation of self-styled also-rans emerges. From Foreign Policy, Rachel Lu on a new definition of Chinese patriotism: Communist authorities are increasingly insisting that loving the party is a precursor to loving the country; and Jessica Chen Weiss on the flame of Chinese nationalism: The Communist Party can't entirely control what it's helped create — that poses a risk to China, and the world.