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Dikötter, Frank,

China after Mao : the rise of a superpower / Frank Dikötter. - London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. - xvi, 390 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From one dictator to another (1976-1979) -- Retrenchment (1979-1982) -- Reform (1982-1984) -- Of people and prices (1984-1988) -- The massacre (1989) -- Watershed (1989-1991) -- Capitalist tools in socialist hands (1992-1996) -- Big is beautiful (1997-2001) -- Going global (2001-2008) -- Hubris (2008-2012) -- Epilogue.

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 Dikötter 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, Dikötter 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.



ISBN: 1526634287 9781526634283 9781526634290 1526634295

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC2C2315 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020676755 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Dictatorship--History.--China
Economic policy.
Social conditions.
Dictatorship--History.--China

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China--History--1976-2002.
China--History--2002-
China--Economic conditions--1976-2000.
China--Economic conditions--2000-
China--Politics and government--1976-2002.
China--Politics and government--2002-
China
China--History--1976-2002
China--History--2002-
China--Economic conditions--1976-2000
China--Economic conditions--2000-
China--Politics and government--1976-2002
China--Politics and government--2002-

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History

LC Class. No.: HC427.92 / .D54 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 951.05