Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
by Philip P. Pan · 2008
Buy on AmazonMore than fifteen years after the fall of the Soviet Union, China is engaged in the largest experiment in authoritarianism in the world. By launching market reforms while continuing to restrict political freedom, the Chinese Communist Party has challenged the Western assumption that economic growth must lead to political liberalization – an assumption at the core of UK and American foreign policy. At the same time, the struggle for democratic change is reaching a crescendo, marking a moment in the history of modern China as uncertain and consequential as the rise of Mao’s cult of personality, or the run-up to the Tiananmen Square massacre.…
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