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_b.D55 2023
100 _aDikötter, Frank,
_eauthor.
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245 _aChina after Mao :
_bthe rise of a superpower /
_cFrank Dikötter.
264 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2023.
300 _axviii, 390 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ;
_c20 cm
336 _2rdacontent
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336 _2rdacontent
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337 _2rdamedia
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338 _2rdacarrier
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504 _6Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-374) and index.
505 0 _a1. 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.
520 _aHow 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. --
_cBack cover.
650 0 _aDictatorship
_xChina
_xHistory
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651 0 _aChina
_xHistory
_y1976-2002.
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_xEconomic condition
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_xEconomic conditions
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_xPolitics and government
_y1976-2002.
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