Why it’s becoming harder to get super-rich in China
- Written by Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Politics; Director, Lau China Institute, King's College London

“To get rich is glorious.” In the 1980s, this was one of the most famous sayings – unofficially, at least – to describe the ethos at the dawn of the opening-up period in post-Maoist China.
China’s paramount leader of the time, Deng Xiaoping, apparently justified this unorthodox situation for an...