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China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower (Paperback)
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_______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A
revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes
clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes
to any period or region in history - but above all to China' Peter
Frankopan, TLS 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what
has shaped today's China and what the Chinese Communist Party's
choices mean for the rest of the world' New Statesman Books of the
Year _______________ From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author
of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in
the wake of Chairman Mao In China After Mao, award-winning
historian Frank Dikoetter explores how the People's Republic of
China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into
the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based
on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the
secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports.
Unfolding with great narrative sweep, this riveting, richly
detailed chronicle recasts our understanding of an era that both
the regime and foreign admirers celebrate as an economic miracle.
In charting four decades of so-called 'Reform and Opening Up' and
China's emergence as a world power, Dikoetter tells a fascinating
tale of contradictions and illusions, of shadow banking,
anti-corruption drives and extreme state wealth standing alongside
everyday poverty. He examines China's approach to the 2008
financial crash, the country's increasing hostility towards
perceived Western interference and its development into a
thoroughly entrenched dictatorship - one equipped with a sprawling
security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system
in the world. Ultimately, the book concludes, the communist party's
goal was never to join the democratic sphere, but to resist it -
and then defeat it. Praise for Frank Dikoetter and the People's
Trilogy: 'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre 'The historian of
China' Spectator 'One of the few books that anyone who wants to
understand the twentieth century simply must read' New Statesman
'The seminal English language work on the subject' Sunday Times
'Gripping and masterful' - Simon Sebag Montefiore
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