[PDF] China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower - Frank Dik?tter

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In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dik?tter delves into the history of China under the communist party ? from the death of Chairman Mao in 1976 up until the moment when Xi Jinping stepped to the fore in 2012.It is a fascinating tale of contradictions and illusions; of shadow banking, repeated anti-corruption drives and the existence of extreme state wealth alongside everyday poverty. Dik?tter explores the decades of so-called 'Reform and Opening Up' ? a forty-year period that has left China with the lowest proportion of resident foreigners in any country ? and the country's emergence into a post-industrial era. He examines China's navigation of the 2008 financial crash, its increasing hostility towards perceived Western interference and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world.Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen municipal and provincial archives, as well