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China's transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable and most controversial development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and out-dated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to Communist state, to hybrid capitalist superpower. Yet the full implications of Chinas rapid march to modernity are not widely understood particularly, the effects of Chinas meteoric rise on the nations many ethnic minorities. is the definitive guide to this complex contemporary phenomenon. Read more