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The making of Chinese foreign and security policy in the Era of reform, 1978-2000
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ISBN: 0804740569 Year: 2001 Publisher: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press,


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The making of foreign policy in China : structure and process
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ISBN: 185043008X Year: 1985 Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris,


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China's foreign policy : challenges and prospects
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ISBN: 9789814719025 9814719021 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Jersey (N.J.): World scientific,


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The diplomatic service of the People's Republic of China as of November 1984 (with biographies)
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ISBN: 3889100120 Year: 1985 Volume: 140 Publisher: Hamburg : Institut für Asienkunde,


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The rise of China and international law : Taking Chinese exceptionalism seriously
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ISBN: 9780190073602 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press


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Powerful patriots : nationalist protest in China's foreign relations
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ISBN: 9780199387564 9780199387557 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press


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The future of China after Mao
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ISBN: 0440526124 Year: 1978 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Dell


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China after Mao : the rise of a superpower
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ISBN: 9781639730513 9781639730520 1639730516 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Bloomsbury Publishing

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"Through decades of direct experience of the People's Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People's Trilogy offers a riveting account of China's rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to industrial metropoles and elite party conclaves--that vaulted the nation from 126th largest economy in the world to second largest. A historian at the pinnacle of his field, Dikötter challenges much of what we think we know about how this happened. Casting aside the image of a society marching unwaveringly toward growth, in lockstep to the beat of the party drum, he recounts instead a fascinating tale of contradictions, illusions, and palace intrigue, of disasters narrowly averted, shadow banking, anti-corruption purges, and extreme state wealth existing alongside everyday poverty. He examines China's navigation of the 2008 financial crash, its increasing hostility towards perceived Western interference, and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world. As this magisterial book makes clear, the communist party's goal was never to join the democratic world, but to resist it--and ultimately defeat it"--

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