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4.0
A really excellent short account of China's long history.
The final chapter 'Superpower Restored' brings everything together in such an excellent way that can be summed up as 'China restored the Canton trading system in the 1980s in everything but name'. I have never considered it that way but once the author wrote it as such it made so much sense!
I would recommend this alongside Becoming China by Jeanne-Marie Gescher, which is a very similar if more poetic and in depth look at China's culture rather than history. A great companion piece, in any order.
The final chapter 'Superpower Restored' brings everything together in such an excellent way that can be summed up as 'China restored the Canton trading system in the 1980s in everything but name'. I have never considered it that way but once the author wrote it as such it made so much sense!
I would recommend this alongside Becoming China by Jeanne-Marie Gescher, which is a very similar if more poetic and in depth look at China's culture rather than history. A great companion piece, in any order.