02361nam a22003497a 4500 20260302144111.0 260302b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781526634306 (paperback) HSLRC DS779.2 .D55 2023 Dikötter, Frank, author. 61452 China after Mao : the rise of a superpower / Frank Dikötter. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. xviii, 390 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 20 cm rdacontent text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent cartographic image cri rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-374) and index. 1. From one dictator to another (1976-1979) -- 2. Retrenchment (1979-1982) -- 3. Reform (1982-1984) -- 4. Of people and prices (1984-1988) -- 5. The massacre (1989) -- 6. Watershed (1989-1991) -- 7. Capitalist tools in socialist hands (1992-1996) -- 8. Big is beautiful (1997-2001) -- 9. Going global (2001-2008) -- 10. Hubris (2008-2012) -- Epilogue. How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers alike celebrate as an economic miracle. In a fascinating tale spanning five decades, he examines the country's economic transformation alongside the regime's determined suppression of dissent, its increasing hostility towards the West and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship led by Xi Jinping -- one equipped with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world. -- Back cover. Dictatorship China History 61453 China History 1976-2002. 61454 China History 2002- 61455 China Economic condition 1976-2000. 61456 China Economic conditions 2000- 61457 China Politics and government 1976-2002. 61458 China Politics and government 2002- 61459 lcc BK 98982 98982 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC HSLRC HSLRC CIR 2026-03-02 818.10 0 DS 779.2 .D55 2023 HS14957 2026-03-02 00:00:00 1 2026-03-02 BK