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China and a New Era: The Latest Twist in an Enduring Pattern?

by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

Has a “New Era” in China’s modern history begun? Will historians of the future, looking back on 2018, single out a recent event as so pivotal that it divides time into a clear before and after? Might that event be an economic phenomenon, such as China displacing Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy? A social one, such as China becoming for the first time in its history a place where the majority of people live in cities? A geopolitical one, such as this being the first time...

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