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My Scholarship entry - The Dragon's Dilemma

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As China’s economies scale in size, even former markets on the fringe like the selling of exotic animal parts for Traditional Chinese Medicine are pushed into the open.

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When thinking about China, outsiders tend to use an image of the Great Wall to symbolize the ancient traditions, sagacious philosophers and ambitious rulers of the Middle Kingdom’s past. Although modern China is characterized by unfathomable levels of growth, her societies and lands are now pressed by tremendous new stresses.

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The city of Guangzhou is at the heart of China’s developmental dilemma. At the epicenter of the “world’s factory,” the city is simultaneously generating astronomical amounts of wealth and severe levels of pollution.

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My Scholarship entry - The Dragon's Dilemma

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