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"""Iconoclastic."" --Wall Street Journal ""A clear-eyed and detailed account."" --The Guardian ""One of the most insightful and nuanced looks at the complex rise of China since the Second World War ... engrossing and riveting."" --The Diplomatic Courier ""Dikötter delivers an excellent, highly critical description of China's spectacular expansion that emphasizes banking, industrial policy, trade, and currency ... a richly informative, disquieting history."" --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ""A compelling and informative account and analysis of Chinese history from the early 1970s to 2022 ... China After Mao is packed with intrigue and insight for the layperson and scholar alike."" --Shelf Awareness ""A blow-by-blow account ... An important corrective to the conventional view of China's rise."" --Financial Times ""A skilled writer, Dikotter is accessible to both expert and lay readers alike."" --The Washington Examiner ""Challenges assumptions about China's speedy, four-decade rise and its transformation from a reclusive agrarian economy into a global superpower . . . Dikötter's well-researched volume marks an important contribution to the literature on China's rise. Highly recommended."" --Choice ""A revolutionary book."" --Sunday Times ""Highly-readable."" --New Statesman ""Dikötter (The People's Trilogy) debunks the myth of China's miracle economy in this expert study ...Extensively researched and cogently argued, this is a must-read for China watchers."" --Publishers Weekly ""Whether he is pondering which came first, Party politics or economic policy, or navigating the slippery relationship between power, productivity and protest, Dikötter unpicks this most tangled web with admirable clarity."" --South China Morning News"

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Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People's Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao. He lives in Hong Kong.

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