About the project

Content Team

Orville Schell

Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society

John Delury

Director, China Boom Project

Andrew Smeall

Producer, China Boom Project

Josh Chin

Field Producer, China Boom Project

Web Site Development Team

Bill Swersey

Executive Director, Asia Society Online

Catherine Colman

Sr. Technical Producer, Asia Society Online

Core Industries

Development Team

Additional Camera

Leah Thompson

Ariane Wu

Michael Zhao

Production Assistants

Daniel Chinoy

Eric Demafeliz

Claire Hsu

Kamshim Lau

Li Yuhong

Zhu Naiyi

Sam Overholt

Ben Stone

Jennifer Tippins

Su Yuanyuan

Weifei Zheng

Additional Interviews Conducted by

Jocelyn Ford

Emily Parker

Phil Tinari

David Yang

Weifei Zheng

Students of the Shantou University Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communications

Special Thanks to

Alibaba

Cai Studio

Caijing Media

Charlene Manuel

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

China Center for Economic Research, Peking University

China Europe International Business School

CVC Capital Partners

Jianchuan Museum Cluster

Laura Chang

Legation Quarter

Matrix Partners

Municipal Government of Guanghan

Netease

Noopur Agarwal

Phoenix TV

Purple Haze

Rutgers University

Sam Hui

School of International Studies, Peking University

School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

Shantou University Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communications

Shen Zaiwang

Sichuan Province Chinese People's Association for Friendly Relations with Foreign Countries

Sun Media Group

Tao Yang

Tyson Foods

Yale University

Zero 2IPO Group

The China Boom Project is a multimedia research, public education, and oral history project designed to explore the question “Why did China boom?“ by recording the collective wisdom of our moment.

Beginning in 2008, China Boom Project researchers taped interviews with individuals who possess unique insights into China’s Boom. They come from all walks of life. Many are leading participants in or observers of China’s economic miracle who can share insight on those aspects of China’s growth they know best. The result is a mosaic explanation, painted in the words of those who have watched it most carefully.

This interactive website presents a guided tour of China’s three decades of “reform and opening“ based on selections from the interview archive. In addition, the project is digitally archived. The full-length videotaped interviews will be available through a consortium of research libraries around the world. Geared toward an audience of specialists and general public alike, China Boom will be a resource for researchers in decades to come.

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