02854cam a2200337 i 4500 607115709 TxAuBib 20230111120000.0 221108s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781639730513 HRD 30.00 1639730516 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Dikötter, Frank. China after Mao [BOOK] : the rise of a superpower / Frank Dikötter. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. xvi, 390 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 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 126t ­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. Provided by publisher. 20230111. Dictatorship China History. 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-