THE BIG READ: A Poor Bill of Health for China After the Miracle

Is This the End of China’s Economic Miracle?

Ma Jijiang and his once poor family are the flesh and blood of China’s modern economic miracle, living proof of how radically the country has been reshaped since the late Deng Xiaoping changed the world in 1978 by proclaiming that to get rich is glorious and launching China’s experiment with market economics.