Best of Culture 20 years
Revisited
No.126 Issue 4/2017
Title
The Hammer, Sickle, and a Love for Money
An apparent contradiction, Chinese communism has thrived as a market economy and situated the most populous country in the world as a rising superpower. But can it last?
Text & Photos
Zigor Aldama
Don’t say “communism” – say “socialism with Chinese characteristics”. That’s the official euphemism to describe China’s apparently contradictory social, political, and economic system: a one-party state with an all-powerful government which controls the judiciary and the National Assembly, and
