The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform - Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian (Yale University Press, 2024)

The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform

Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian

Yale University Press, 2024, 424 páginas

The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history.

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 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.

Sobre os autores :

Odd Arne Westad is the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. His books include The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, winner of the Bancroft Prize, and Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750. He lives in New Haven, CT. 

Chen Jian is Distinguished Global Network Professor of History at NYU and NYU Shanghai and Hu Shih Professor of History Emeritus at Cornell University. His books include China's Road to the Korean War, Mao's China and the Cold War, and Zhou Enlai: A Life. He lives in Ithaca, NY.

Índice

1 Introduction, 1

1 To the Cultural Revolution, 8

2 Great Disorder under Heaven, 36

3 A Successor Dies, 61

4 Americans, 86

5 The Fall and Rise and Fall of Deng Xiaoping, 109

6 1976, 135

7 Succession Struggles, 165

8 Visions of China, 189

9 Imagining the World, 216

10 A New China, 247

11 To the Point of No Return?, 273

12 The Making and Unmaking of Chinese Reform, 300

Notes, 311

Sources Cited, 369

Index 395