China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

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A year after China won its 2002 bid for the Olympics a virus began to spread from a market in Guangdong, mirroring the pandemic 17 years later in official obfuscation and a refusal to inform the WHO. Planned economies during the Great Leap Forward and political chaos in the Cultural Revolution drew China to the brink of another revolution. Still it is a very sobering to realize that the narrative the Chinese authorities have fed us, the author believes, has obscured the actual situation and befuddled so many observers and business leaders up to this day. State subsidized industries like textiles crushed American mill owners and products flooding the markets were shipped through Hong Kong to conceal the identity of their origin.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In a few easy steps, create an account and receive the most recent analysis from Hoover fellows tailored to your specific policy interests. Lech Walesa’s Solidarity Party led Poland to a peaceful transition to democracy following the Tiananmen debacle, increasing paranoia in the CCP that communism was failing on all fronts. The author knows his stuff and he provides plenty of info and evidence to back up his points, but it left a weird taste in my mouth the entire way. It is the time of the Chinese economic "growth miracle": the economy often grew by more than ten percent per year, and rushed closer and closer to that of the United States.Damit schlägt er einen Bogen von Mao und Deng, die nichts von Wirtschaft verstanden, bis Xi Jinping, der als „Vorsitzender von Allem“ (The Economist) das Konzept des Feindes von außen mit umfassender Kontrolle der Bevölkerung verbindet. Dikotter had previosly written a series of books highly critical of China under Mao Zedong, so now he's back with a book about the problems of China after Mao. And wasn't that economic success a big part of the reason why Deng Xiaoping's regime was able to survive the 1989 protests largely unscathed (while Eastern Europe regimes fell at the exact same time)? A massive redistribution of income away from party members towards ordinary people would be necessary to spur more consumption, but this was unlikely to happen.

The main point is that for all of China's growth and seeming success, it's all based on a shaky foundation and creative accounting - and Dikotter believes that this is rapidly approaching a dead end for the nation. If this book was all you knew about China, you'd think that the history of the nation over the last 45 years was nothing but problems, missed opportunities, and disaster.

Jiang conducted sweeping purges of party hacks who opposed his policies, replacing military leaders and stacking his allies in the security and propaganda apparatus. En mi opinión el libro adolece de esa critica que se resume solo a las pugnas entre altos cargos del politburo chino. Compounding this issue was the concern of those made relevant by Mao not to have Mao fall into disgrace as Stalin did in Russia.