{"product_id":"9781526634306-china-after-mao","title":"China After Mao","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Rise of a Superpower\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A revolutionary book' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eNEW STATESMAN \u003c\/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘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’ \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A blow-by-blow account of the uneven, reactive and sometimes chaotic course of economic policies . An important corrective’ \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Dikötter has been mining Chinese primary sources for decades . A clear-eyed and detailed account’ \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40938769285217,"sku":"9781526634306","price":11.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31289726.jpg?v=1731573696","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526634306-china-after-mao","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}