China After Mao av Frank Dikotter

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<b>_______________</b><b>A <i>SPECTATOR </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><b>¿A revolutionary book¿ </b>- <i>Sunday Times</i><b>¿A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history ¿ but above all to China¿</b> Peter Frankopan, <i>TLS</i><b><i>''</i>The historian of China'' </b>- <i>Spectator</i><b>_______________</b><b>From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of <i>Mao''s Great Famine</i>, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao</b>In <i>China After Mao</i>, award-winning historian Frank Dik¿tter 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 secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports. Unfolding with great narrative sweep, this riveting, richly detailed chronicle recasts our u