A blow-by-blow account ...
As this magisterial book makes clear, the communist party\'s goal was never to join the democratic world, but to resist it--and ultimately defeat it..
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.
Casting aside the image of a society marching unwaveringly toward growth, in lockstep to the beat of the party drum, he recounts instead a fascinating tale of contradictions, illusions, and palace intrigue, of disasters narrowly averted, shadow banking, anti-corruption purges, and extreme state wealth existing alongside everyday poverty.
A historian at the pinnacle of his field, Dikötter challenges much of what we think we know about how this happened.
He takes us inside the country\'s unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to industrial metropoles and elite party conclaves--that vaulted the nation from 126t -largest economy in the world to second -largest.
Through decades of direct experience of the People\'s Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People\'s Trilogy offers a riveting account of China\'s Rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution.
An important corrective to the conventional view of China\'s rise.-- Financial Times From internationally renowned historian Frank Dikötter, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, a myth-shattering history of China from the death of Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping.
A blow-by-blow account ..
