China’s resurgence has been driven by a combination of private entrepreneurship and top-down bureaucratic capitalism; by an unmatched and unchecked culture of engineering ambition; of rote learning and educational experimentation; of sophisticated tastes along with basic concerns with food safety; of a China at once cosmopolitan and confused in its new global roles. How will those conflicting strategies, shortcomings, and achievements play out in the future? How do we imagine this great and resurgent nation with its embedded conflicts and challenges will look in 2034?