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China After Mao [electronic resource] : The Rise of a Superpower

Frank Dikötter2022
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_______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history - but above all to China' Peter Frankopan, TLS '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' New Statesman Books of the Year _______________ From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao In China After Mao , award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential ban...
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Imprint:
United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022
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1 online resource (1 text file) (416)
Audience:
General / adult
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781526634337
Language:
English
BRN:
438387
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