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The outcasts who built China
The Hakka people -- the 'Jews of Asia', or perhaps its 'dandelions' -- have had an influence out of all proportion to their numbers

Jonathan Manthorpe
Vancouver Sun, July 10, 2004
There is a handful of men who can be justly called the architects of modern Greater China. With very different political purposes and philosophical viewpoints they have fashioned today's principal independent Chinese societies: Mainland China, Singapore and Taiwan.

Deng Xiaoping, China's paramount leader until his death in 1997, decided in the mid-1970s that the country's isolation and Marxist-Leninist centrally controlled command economy were dead ends. He launched China into the global marketplace, a revolutionary move that will see the country develop the world's second- largest economy within the next half dozen years and has set it on the route to super-power status.

Lee Kuan Yew created the extraordinarily successful trading city-state of Singapore on a......

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