{"product_id":"china-after-mao-the-rise-of-a-superpower-by-frank-dikotter","title":"China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikötter","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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' New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A blow-by-blow account of the uneven, reactive and sometimes chaotic course of economic policies . . . An important corrective' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Dikötter has been mining Chinese primary sources for decades . . . A clear-eyed and detailed account' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43453926932554,"sku":"6461bs","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6461bs.jpg?v=1774746506","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/china-after-mao-the-rise-of-a-superpower-by-frank-dikotter","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}