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China After Mao
The Rise of a Superpower
Taschenbuch von Frank Dikötter
Sprache: Englisch

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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
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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.

Praise for Frank Dikötter 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
_______________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 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.

Praise for Frank Dikötter 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
Über den Autor
Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People's Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao. He is married and lives in Hong Kong.
Zusammenfassung
Strong media support: The author's previous titles have drawn excellent media coverage. Dictators was chosen as a Book of the Year by the New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist; Mao's Great Famine was selected as Book of the Year by the Independent, Economist, Sunday Times, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XX
396 S.
16 s/w Bildtaf.
ISBN-13: 9781526634290
ISBN-10: 1526634295
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 526928
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Dikötter, Frank
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Maße: 233 x 151 x 33 mm
Von/Mit: Frank Dikötter
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,664 kg
Artikel-ID: 121144927
Über den Autor
Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People's Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao. He is married and lives in Hong Kong.
Zusammenfassung
Strong media support: The author's previous titles have drawn excellent media coverage. Dictators was chosen as a Book of the Year by the New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist; Mao's Great Famine was selected as Book of the Year by the Independent, Economist, Sunday Times, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XX
396 S.
16 s/w Bildtaf.
ISBN-13: 9781526634290
ISBN-10: 1526634295
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 526928
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Dikötter, Frank
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Maße: 233 x 151 x 33 mm
Von/Mit: Frank Dikötter
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,664 kg
Artikel-ID: 121144927
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