TIME Asia: China - To Get Rich is Glorious

COVER STORY

Wretched Excess
Flush with the spoils of capitalism, China's fledgling multimillionaires are living large. Mao would have had a cow

Making Them Pay
The government is cracking down on the tax-dodgers among China's newly wealthy

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Days and nights with China's 'New Money'

The Nuance of Nouveau
How China's affluent arrivistes spend all that fresh cash



	Are China's newly monied classes here to stay? Yes, it's a fact of life No, it's a bubble economy Who can tell?

Plastic Surgery
Asians across the region are remaking their faces, bodies—and lives (Aug. 5, 2002)

China's Labor Problems
China's prosperous surface masks a rising sea of joblessness that could threaten the country's stability (Jun. 17, 2002)

HUANG QIAOLING IN THE OVAL OFFICE OF HIS OWN PRIVATE WHITE HOUSE. PHOTOGRAPH BY LAUREN GREENFIELD/VII FOR TIME