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Why it’s becoming harder to get super-rich in China

By Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics; Director, Lau China Institute, King's College London

“To get rich is glorious.” In the 1980s, this was one of the most famous sayings – unofficially, at least – to describe the ethos at the dawn of the opening-up period in post-Maoist China.

China’s paramount leader of the time, Deng Xiaoping, apparently justified this unorthodox situation for an ostensibly egalitarian Communist country by saying: “First you let some make…

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