China After Mao The Rise Of A Superpower

China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower “A blow-by-blow account … An important corrective to the conventional view of Chinas rise.”--Financial Times From internationally renowned historian Frank Dikötter, winner of the Samuel... More

China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower “A blow-by-blow account … An important corrective to the conventional view of Chinas rise.”--Financial Times From internationally renowned historian Frank Dikötter, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, a myth­shattering history of China from the death of Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping. Through decades of direct experience of the Peoples Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The Peoples Trilogy offers a riveting account of Chinas rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the countrys 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 Less