Chasing the Chinese Dream: Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty
- ISBN-10
- 9811606544
- ISBN-13
- 9789811606540
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Author
- William N. Brown
Description
I don't doubt that, given its wealth. ... Or we can continue to do nothing, for as Edmund Burke (1730–1797) wrote in a letter to Thomas Mercer,6 “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” But ...
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- 2017-09-22
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