China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

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Frank Dikotter is the author of a dozen books that have changed the way we look at the history of modern China, including Mao's Great Famine, winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2011. Despite the "Superpower" in the title, Dikotter argues that there are quite some big structural problems in China's political and economic system. Filmmakers and authors like Zhang Yimou and Mo Yan were castigated for their criticism of the rush to growth and favorable portrayals of foreigners. Frank Dikötters Standardwerk zur Entwicklung Chinas seit Mao (1893–1976) umfasst die Zeit von 1976 (dem beginnenden Aufstieg Dengs) bis zum Beginn der Corona-Pandemie 2019/20. Thousands fled from Hong Kong, considered by Beijing a hotbed of foreign subversion, trying to escape the rapidly approaching mainland handover.

By the late 2000’s China had linked Shanghai to Central Asia with a network of oil and gas pipelines and became the world’s largest cotton producer and purchaser. It is the time of the Chinese economic "growth miracle": the economy often grew by more than ten percent per year, and rushed closer and closer to that of the United States.

This is my main message that I take with me: according to Dikötter the 'age of China' does not exist and will never come. Der Autor begann 1985 in Tianjin sein Sinologiestudium, als es im gesamten Land weniger als 20 000 Privatfahrzeuge gab.

That idea is not yet dead, but it seems less robust than it did: the economy is performing poorly and is beset by profound long-term problems that include demographics, debt and a deflating property sector.Factories produced goods for sale below cost and made up the difference with state loans that would never be repaid. As the Federal Reserve raised interest rates China became the greatest holder of US debt after Japan. He also comes to the surprising conclusion that even after all the reforms, China is not that different from forty years ago.