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China’s national butterfly effect is observable from the onset of Deng’s economic reform. There are numerous butterfly effects with varied scales in multifarious fields of China from 1978. It has been an epoch of, positive and negative, butterfly effects. Deng embarked national rags-to-riches stories of different levels. Ma Yun’s rags-to-riches process is a typical story among many thousands of Chinese in miscellaneous fields.
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Zhang, WB. (2021). Economic Growth from Hunger with Animal Spirits. In: The Butterfly Effect in China’s Economic Growth. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9889-0_5
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