FAST FACTS ABOUT
CHINA
CHAPTER 10
‘China is big enough to permit many views.
Precisely because the country eludes generalization,
some observers have tended to grasp at straws,
too willing to convert a trend into a prophecy—
many people are buying cars,
so eventually half a billion will own cars;
some groups want democracy, soon everyone will.’
—Jasper Becker, The Chinese