China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

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Encounters with a variety of hardworking dancers, drag queens, and pimps, plus an account of the complexities of a first love with a drug-addled hustler, fill out the memoir with personality and candor.

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Foreign investors soon found themselves mired in a sea of red tape as they began to take advantage of the concessions. There are no quick-fix solutions to China’s challenges, given the path-dependence of the developments that have unfolded due to each leadership generation’s actions. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. For Indian readers, the book holds special significance because Dikotter raises some critical issues regarding the viability of a development model that has delivered impressive results quickly.People’s Communes were divided up” with “responsibility for cultivating the land handed back to individual families” (44). As moves were made to address the deficiencies many outside observers thought China was transitioning from a planned economy to a market economy and that democracy would follow, promoted by the Clinton administration. The main question that this study of China after Mao revolves around is an examination of a seemingly plausible and widely accepted hypothesis: that an implementation of free market methods will lay the foundation, inevitably, for democratic political reform.

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Thus, an alternate proposal to the above-mentioned economic-political reform link hypothesis, and different from the overall tenor of the book’s argument, would be the following. Planned economies during the Great Leap Forward and political chaos in the Cultural Revolution drew China to the brink of another revolution. We also learn, to nobody’s surprise, that absolute truths are highly mutable: in 1940 Mao promised protection of private property, democratic freedoms and a multiparty system, but when the party came to power in 1949 it suppressed rival organisations, burned books and expropriated property. The purge of Mao’s inner circle, following the tyrant’s death, amounted to a strictly surface-level show-trial outcome.It’s an ironic detail, given that China After Mao covers the period marked by Deng Xiaoping’s vaunted “reform and opening up” that would ultimately change China irrevocably. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters. Proclamations followed that China ‘will never copy the separation of powers and multi-party systems of the West’.