This essay is an excerpt from her book The Chinese Dream, available on Amazon and TheChineseDreamBook.com.

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The stocks of Chinese banks fell this year and were trading at price-to-book ratios that assumed these institutions would suffer substantial losses on their loan portfolios.

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Julia Lovell's excellent new book explores why this period of history is so emotionally important for the Chinese.

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