Wang Shaobi was just 7 years old, growing up dirt poor in southeast China, when the world she would inherit changed forever. It was 30 years ago this month December, 1978 when China's leadership decided the time had come for their country to open up its economy and to embrace something akin to capitalism. The monumental shift China under Mao Zedong had been a centrally planned economic disaster reflected the growing, behind-the-scenes influence of a man few in the West had then heard of: Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. China, the ruling Communist Party decreed back...
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