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The Broken China Dream : How Reform Revived Totalitarianism.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pei, Minxin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political leadership--China.
- Political leadership.
- Authoritarianism--China.
- Authoritarianism.
- China--Politics and government--1976-2002.
- China.
- China--Politics and government--2002-.
- China--Economic policy--1976-2000.
- China--Economic policy--2000-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- A provocative book that demystifies China's great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country's embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and one-man rule instead of democracy as many in the West had hoped When China embarked on its transformative journey of modernization in 1979.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Decisive Decade
- 2. Reform and Growth in the 1980s
- 3. Building Neo-Authoritarianism, 1992-2002
- 4. Stagnation in the Hu Jintao Era
- 5. China's Economic Miracle
- 6. Revival of Totalitarianism Under Xi Jinping
- 7. End of the Chinese Economic Miracle
- 8. From Engagement to a New Cold War
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-22334-3
- OCLC:
- 1543208973
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