The great transformation : China's road from revolution to reform / Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westad, Odd Arne, author.

Chen, Jian, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--1976-2002.

China.

China--Economic conditions--1976-2000.

China--Politics and government--1976-2002.

Physical Description:

x, 408 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao's Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world. In this rigorous account, Westad and Chen construct a panorama of catastrophe and progress in China. They chronicle China's gradual opening to the world--the interplay of power in an era of aged and ailing leadership, the people's rebellion against the earlier government system, and the roles of unlikely characters: overseas Chinese capitalists, American engineers, Japanese professors, and German designers. This is a story of revolutionary change that neither foreigners nor the Chinese themselves could have predicted." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

To the cultural revolution

Great disorder under heaven

A successor dies

Americans

The fall and rise and fall of Deng Xiaoping

1976

Succession struggles

Visions of China

Imagining the world

A new China

To the point of no return?

Conclusion: The making and unmaking of Chinese reform.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Westad, Odd Arne. Great transformation.

ISBN:

9780300267082

0300267088

OCLC:

1405843889