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China's Big Bang

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发表于 4-25-2018 16:11:19 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
John Micklethwait, China's Big Bang. (under the heading Remarks). Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Apr 23, 2018
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... w-it-s-china-s-turn

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Thatcher's 1979 financial reforms transformed Britain. Is the people's Republic about to undergo the same?

(b)
(i) John Micklethwait
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Micklethwait
(born in 1962 in London; editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News 2015- )

He received BS in history. Or as the British like to say: he "read history at Magdalen College, Oxford" University.

read (v): "British  study (an academic subject) at a university  <I'm reading English at Cambridge>
[no object]  <he went to Manchester to read for a BA in Economics>"
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/read
(ii) Mickle -- a Once Great Word. Croydon, Australia: Madrigal Communications, undated
www.madrigal.com.au/word-of-the-week-mickle/
("Mickle is equivalent to * * * Latin magnus; Greek megas * * * which, of course, all mean great or large. * * * Mickle was probably introduced into English by the Vikings from Old Norse. It forms a common element in Yorkshire place names, for instance: the town of Micklethwaite (meaning great piece of land or meadow)" ) (citations omitted)
(ii) Thwaite (placename element)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thwaite_(placename_element)
(Old Norse or Old Danish for "clearing" or "meadow")
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