“For months the world’s attention has been focused on the White House race but, while we weren’t watching, a quiet revolution has been gathering pace – transforming the earth’s most populous nation from stunted giant into aspiring superpower. In an attempt to capture a snapshot of this dizzying change, 15 Guardian journalists will be reporting all this week on every aspect of Chinese life from the stock market to sex and shopping. Here, foreign reporter of the year James Meek asks if China has found a third way between capitalism and communism.”
Click through these titles to read:
* One week in the life of the Chinese miracle
* Why we did it
* If I was a lowly official they would be proud
* Shanghaicuts
Early morning on the Bund in Shanghai. Photo: Dan Chung/Guardian