Golden Goose: The Story of a Peasant Family in Western China

by Xu Liu and David Burnett

This book offers an intimate and personal look at what China's poverty alleviation has meant for individuals. The dramatic progress in reducing poverty in China over the past three decades is well known. According to the World Bank, more than 500 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty as China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 6.5 percent in 2012. Behind this statistic are the millions of families in rural China who have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 981133773X
• ISBN13: 9789811337734
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"