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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
Book • 2024
Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world.
The book constructs a panorama of catastrophe and progress in China, detailing its gradual opening to the world, the interplay of power in an era of aged and ailing leadership, and the roles of unlikely characters such as overseas Chinese capitalists, American engineers, Japanese professors, and German designers.
These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world.
The book constructs a panorama of catastrophe and progress in China, detailing its gradual opening to the world, the interplay of power in an era of aged and ailing leadership, and the roles of unlikely characters such as overseas Chinese capitalists, American engineers, Japanese professors, and German designers.
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Joe Weisenthal as a book that complexifies the story of China's economic transformation.
Joe Weisenthal as a book that complexifies the story of China's economic transformation.
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Odd Arne Westad on how China First Joined the Global Capitalist Economy
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Kaiser Kuo as a detailed and well-researched account of the transition period in China after Mao's death.
Kaiser Kuo as a detailed and well-researched account of the transition period in China after Mao's death.
Tsinghua's Da Wei: New Survey Research on Chinese Perceptions of Security
