The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform
by Odd Arne Westad
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"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 show more 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." (from the publisher) show lessTags
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Odd Arne Westad is the S. T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University and author or editor of eleven books. His The Global Cold War won the 2006 Bancroft Prize, the Harrington Award, and the Akira Iriye International History Award. Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 was awarded the 2013 Asia Society Book Award. He show more lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. show less
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Business
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- 951.057 — History & geography History of Asia East Asia: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea History 1949- (People's Republic, 20th century) 1970-1979
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- DS779.2 .W478 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia China History
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