China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower
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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 416 |
| Format | 13,0 x 2,8 x 20,9 cm |
| Gewicht | 311 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781526634306 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52663430UA |
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikötter, 'the historian of China' (Spectator), a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times
'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan
_A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR_
How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers alike celebrate as an economic miracle. In a fascinating tale spanning five decades, he examines the country's economic transformation alongside the regime's determined suppression of dissent, its increasing hostility towards the West and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship led by Xi Jinping - one equipped with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world.
'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
'A blow-by-blow account of the uneven, reactive and sometimes chaotic course of economic policies . . . An important corrective' Financial Times
'Dikötter has been mining Chinese primary sources for decades . . . A clear-eyed and detailed account' Observer
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PRAISE FOR THE PEOPLE'S TRILOGY: Together, these three books constitute a major contribution to scholarship on modern China, one that is unequalled, certainly in the English language Literary Review
