The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China\'s 900 million peasants.
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They are also, perhaps, the reason that China Will not be able to make the great social and economic leap forward, because if it is to leap it must carry the 900 million with it.
They are truly the voiceless in modern China.
Many of China\'s underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century.
They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing.
The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China\'s 900 million peasants