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Essay on Modern China: Middle Class Cultural Change With Big Business
Introduction:
Working Class Chinese: It is easier than one might expect to live and work in the country for a long time and not really know China. China shows us parts of itself, but what it shows us is not always what it is. For example, China is not the Hyatt Regency in Shanghai, or the Holiday Inn in Xinjiang. It is not the international-standard air coach, nor the soft-seated, air-conditioned tourist bus, nor any number of other joint ventures along the way.
Those are only parts of what China is becoming. China is the more than one billion people, most on bicycles, riding to and from work, school, or the markets each day. China is the vegetable farmers growing their produce and carting it to the street markets for sale. It is a nation of people in many ways still struggling to overcome a shackling Maoist socialism while trying to remain faithful to the principles of "Chinese" socialism. China is a country trying to feed 20% of the world's population on 7% of the world's amble land.
China is a nation trying to provide for continuing population growth, to feed, shelter and employ its people, and to sustain its identity. From its perspective, it must accomplish these tasks while it tries to defend itself against outsiders who do not understand that the political, social, religious, and moral philosophies of their countries are not fitted to today's China. At least, that is the China we see, and it is a vision of China that we believe needs to be seriously considered by anyone who wishes to live and work there.
Change from rural to urban lifestyle: Throughout the country, where in the morning fields of crops were are in the afternoon the foundations of tall buildings. And, where last night the sun set....
