Award Date

12-1-2021

Degree Type

Professional Paper

Degree Name

Master of Science in Hotel Administration

Department

William F. Harrah College of Hospitality

First Committee Member

Chih-Chien Chen

Number of Pages

54

Abstract

"Black cat or white cat, if it can catch mice, it's a good cat." As China's then Chief Secretary, and later the nation's "Paramount Leader" Deng Xiaoping made this now-famous metaphor in the 1960s for a planned economy versus that of a market economy (Zheng & Sun, 2018), little did anyone at the time anticipated the sheer level of influence this populous yet impoverished nation would have on the world's geopolitical and economic scene in the coming decades. Indeed, through a combination of economic reforms, diplomatic engagement, and political reorganization, the People's Republic of China rapidly elevated its international positioning from a marginalized member of the global community to one of the world's biggest economies and what external observers would call a "quasi-superpower" in the 21st century and aims to catch up or surpass the United States in the near future (Brooks & Wohlfarth, 2016; Lu, 2019).

Controlled Subject

International relations; Tourism; Geopolitics

Disciplines

Tourism

File Format

pdf

File Size

254 KB

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

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