01439 a2200193 4500 250721b ii ||||| |||| 00| 0 mal d 978-0300267082 Westad, Odd Arne The Great transformation : China’s road from revolution to reform USA: Yale University Press, 2024. 408p. 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 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 gradual opening to the world the interplay of power in an era of aged and ailing leadership, the people 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. Transformation-China Economic Development-China Reforms - China; Economics Jian Chen BK ddc 49288 49288 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN MAIN RN31 2025-07-11 48 2677.00 0 951.05 WES 38356 2025-07-11 00:00:00 3244.44 2025-07-11 BK Recommended by Prof. Aravind Sampath