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Zhang Li

analyses the last 30 years of a huge wave of urbanization in China.
One indispensable element of this urbanisation is modernization. Industrial technologies, consumerism and capitalism has injected modernity into China at such a magnitude, that gaps have been made everywhere throughout the country, revealing the irreconcilable contradiction between what is traditional and what is modern. The fierce debate on modernity has never stopped in the past three decades.
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