"China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower" by Frank Diktter is a comprehensive and insightful book that delves into the complex and layered history of modern China. The author, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, challenges commonly held beliefs about China and presents...
InChina 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...
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Nov 12, 2022 // The West often reverts to short-hands and heuristics that don’t capture the complexity and nuance of China. However, in the book, “China After Mao,” author Frank Dikötter offers a far more insightful and nuanced look at the complex
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The historian Frank Dikötter, in his recent book China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower, points out that while the Three Represents did open Party membership to entrepreneurs, it also began a push to extend Party cells into private businesses: Although few people knew exactly what the ...
Re: China The Dominant Superpower In 20 Years... - What does this mean for US? You and I both know that no matter how ambitious a space program China has, it won't be enough to transport population growth to Mars even if Mars could be made to sustain thousands of immigrants a year....
Susan L. Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower (2007), describes the links between China’s internal politics and external attitudes; and Yongnian Zheng, Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China: Modernization, Identity, and International Relations (1999), explores the origins and types of Chinese ...
developing country as determined by its social development level and a great gap in per capita development level compared with developed states. There is a discrepancy between the characteristics of a superpower and of a developing country, driving China into crises of discursive rupture when ...
In a historic turn, China’s rise as an economic superpower is reversing. The biggest global story of the past half century may be over. After stagnating under Mao Zedong in the 1960s and 70s, China opened to the world in the 1980s — and took off in subsequent decades. Its share of...