Australian Centre on China in the World

[Online CIW Seminar] Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise

As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China, the truth is much more complicated and might be a serious cause for concern.