03921cam a2200577 i 4500 23174178 BJBSDDR 20240325131717.0 ta 230606s2022 nyuabf e b 001 0 eng d 2022435822 9781639730513 1639730516 9781639730520 (ebook) (OCoLC)on1350411071 HBP eng rda HBP RNL OJ4 CGB JCW CPL QX7 VP@ CDX YDX LIV DYJ CNCAR FMG OCLCF EAU JTH TOH UAH UAP RB0 JTH WIS MNE OCL ZLM FUG LMR DLC eng lccopycat a-cc--- 408 DS 779.2 D575c 2022 951.05/7 Dikötter, Frank, 1961- 34669 China after Mao : the rise of a superpower / Frank Dikötter. Rise of a superpower New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. xvi, 390 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent cartographic image cri rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier First published in 2022 in Great Britain. Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-374) 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). "Through decades of direct experience of the People's Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People's Trilogy offers a riveting account of China's rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to industrial metropoles and elite party conclaves--that vaulted the nation from 126th largest economy in the world to second largest. A historian at the pinnacle of his field, Dikötter challenges much of what we think we know about how this happened. Casting aside the image of a society marching unwaveringly toward growth, in lockstep to the beat of the party drum, he recounts instead a fascinating tale of contradictions, illusions, and palace intrigue, of disasters narrowly averted, shadow banking, anti-corruption purges, and extreme state wealth existing alongside everyday poverty. He examines China's navigation of the 2008 financial crash, its increasing hostility towards perceived Western interference, and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world. As this magisterial book makes clear, the communist party's goal was never to join the democratic world, but to resist it--and ultimately defeat it"-- Provided by Amazon. Dictatorship China History. Dictaduras Historia China 25259 China History 1976-2002. China History 2002- China Historia 4718 China Economic conditions 1976-2000. China Economic conditions 2000- China Condiciones económicas 4814 China Politics and government 1976-2002. China Politics and government 2002- China Política y gobierno 3423 Online version: Dikötter, Frank, China after Mao. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 120797 120797 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2024-03-04 0 408 DS 779.2 D575c 2022 00000177607 2024-03-04 00:00:00 1 2024-03-04 BK