China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

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Dikotter explains the turbulent political history of those struggling to survive the death of Mao as well as those seeking to replace him. In what appeared very much like a self-fulfilling prophecy, Beijing's belief that the United States was a hostile force bent on containing it actually became true. Dazu gehört die gesellschaftliche Emanzipation der Bevölkerung, die Befreiung von ideologischer Gängelung, die zwar keine politische Freiheit bedeutet, aber im privaten Bereich eine ungeheure Energie und Schaffenskraft ausgelöst hat.

Hu Jintao took charge of an atheism program designed to weed out anyone with religious beliefs from the Party and populace, and became leader of the People’s Republic. What sets Hoover apart from all other policy organizations is its status as a center of scholarly excellence, its locus as a forum of scholarly discussion of public policy, and its ability to bring the conclusions of this scholarship to a public audience.There are a number of problems with a tag line like “the most powerful man in the world,” the subtitle of this biography of Xi Jinping by German journalists Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges, its publication shrewdly timed for the imminent confirmation of its subject’s third term in office, expected at next month’s party congress.

I found the author's writing style far easier to read than some of his previous (equally illuminating) works, although such is the breadth of the 'sweep' over the last (almost) 50 years that the cascades of economic developments, policies, 'tricks', changes and corrective measures threatens at various places to 'overwhelm' the reader. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Xi has conducted repeated purges ever since, under the guise of the longest anti-corruption campaign in history, consolidating power in his own hands by setting up a series of “leading small groups” which he heads, and writing his “thought” into the constitution of the party and the country, while tearing up Deng Xiaoping’s constitutional safeguards against a recurrence of the kind of personality cult and dictatorship perpetrated by Mao Zedong. Reversion to a mercantile past asserted itself in cities, black markets multiplying beyond Beijing’s control, to the point where local industries competed for raw materials with the state.

Celebrity dissidents, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, support for the Dalai Lama led to a vast network of surveillance cameras and police stretching from Shanghai to Xinjiang. Zhu Rongji, Li Peng’s Vice-Premier wrested tax collection from the provinces and modernized it with a newly centralized revenue service in Beijing. This ultimately underctus Dikotter's final point, where he argues that all the tricks China has used over the last 40 years have run their course, and their in dangerous waters to keep their overrated economy humming.

Hoover scholars form the Institution’s core and create breakthrough ideas aligned with our mission and ideals. In dem man im Wortsinn aus der Geschichte lernt, lassen sich Gehörtes und Erlebtes einordnen, wenn man als Leser verfolgt, wie sich Werte und Einstellungen chinesischer Bürger seit den 80ern eher gefestigt als verändert haben. As the timeline approaches the 21st century, perhaps materials become more scarce and scattered, I feel like the discussion does not have enough breadth and depth. Breaking with the bland orthodoxy peddled in some of our finest universities, Dikötter says that China today is a Leviathan where a party, fascist in all but name, controls society … Dikötter marshals a daunting array of statistics and documents .Growth, for decades, had depended on debt, which had risen slowly from a very low level between 1980 and 2010. Rund 1/3 des Bandes nimmt der Anhang ein, mit Quellen, Register, Fotos, Verzeichnis der Archive eine wahre Fundgrube.

Foreign investors soon found themselves mired in a sea of red tape as they began to take advantage of the concessions. And wasn't that economic success a big part of the reason why Deng Xiaoping's regime was able to survive the 1989 protests largely unscathed (while Eastern Europe regimes fell at the exact same time)? The last parts also show a shift since 1989 towards national patr Attempts by Margaret Thatcher to bolster the confidence of British subjects living in the crown colony after the 1997 handover were met with hostility and threats by Deng and Li.

I am hoping Dikötter is planning to follow up this trilogy with another volume, this time focussing on the age of Xi Jinping who, from the looks of it, has Mao-like aspirations. Everyone from Siemens to Matsushita and Ford got on board including the former opium dealer Jardine Matheson. On April 4 1976 pro-Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping protests rallied against Madame Mao’s Gang of Four coup attempt. Using Tiananmen Square as backdrop Dikotter looks at past dissents in post imperial China from the May 4 1919 protests against cession of Shandong to Japan in the Versailles Treaty to the March 18 1926 massacre of protesters against the unequal treaties still in effect with western imperial powers.