When Chen Jianli arrived in the newly established special economic zone (SEZ) in Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, in 1983 to make a better living, there was much uneasiness and even fear.
• Adam Frost, Harvard University
• Yanjie Huang, Columbia University
Gavin Healy, “To Serve the Tourists is to Serve the People: From Chairman Mao’s Revolutionary Diplomatic Line to Mass-Market Tourism”
Workers serving foreign tourists in China’s hotels, restaurants, and transportation facilities in the 1970s performed their jobs under the guidance of ideological campaigns that attempted to define the political and economic nature of service labor. While at the beginning of the decade these campaigns had attacked as revisionist forms of customer service that “targeted both refined and popular taste,” by mid-decade tourism service workers reported that they were “studying professional skill for the sake of Chairman Mao’s Revolutionary Diplomatic Line.” By the end of the decade, these ideological campaigns for service workers unabashedly emphasized the development of mass-market tourism and the professionalization of customer service skills as integral parts of
For Sri Lankans Who Are In Limbo Due To China & America Conflict
Ernest Kithsiri
According to Dr.Kishore Mahbubhani, until 1800 China and India were the biggest economies in the world. Since they were the countries with biggest populations, we can assume above statement has some validity. Since 1800, above status began to change due to the Industrial revolution in Europe and America, which he considers as an “aberration”. He further believes, this anomaly should correct itself with the rise of China and thereafter India. Will we ever see it?
In 1950, in PPP terms, Americas GDP share (as a percentage of world GDP) was 27.3% while China had only 4.5%. In 1990, America was 20.6% and China was 3.86%. However as of 2018, America’s GDP share percentage was 15 while China was at 18.6.