Episode 93: Frank Dikötter on China’s Uneven Rise

The transformation of the Chinese economy over the last four decades is typically thought of as near-miraculous. Yet the facts and figures that make up that picture are those that have filtered down from the Chinese Communist Party. In China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/china-after-mao-9781639730513/), Frank Dikötter’s wide-ranging research pulls back the curtain to reveal a much less tidy—and much more mixed—picture.

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