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Jiang Zemin propelled China's economic rise in the world, leaving his successors to deal with the massive inequality that followed

  • Written by Edward Cunningham, Director of Ash Center China Programs, Harvard Kennedy School
imageJiang Zemin oversaw the economic transformation of China.Diana Walker/Getty Images

By the summer of 1989, a series of problems were threatening China’s stability. Soaring inflation was undermining the economy at home while the violent suppression of Tiananmen Square demonstrations had left it largely a pariah state abroad. Yet within a few...

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