Čína po Maovi - Vzestup supervelmoci – Dikötter Frank (2025)

Historian Frank Dikötter tells the compelling story of China’s modern history and its economic rise after the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on hundreds of previously unpublished documents from Communist Party archives, he examines Chinese politics from the death of Mao, the Great Helmsman, to Xi Jinping and charts the country’s unprecedented forty-year transformation from the world’s 126th-largest economy to its second-largest. He challenges familiar ideas and myths about a society moving steadily forward to the rhythm of the Party drum, instead revealing a turbulent development marked by conflicts, palace intrigues, civil disobedience, anti-corruption purges, shadow banking and a dual-price system. The book explores how China navigated the 2008 financial crisis, why its hostility towards the West is growing and how it is becoming a rigid dictatorship with an extensive security apparatus and the world’s most sophisticated system for monitoring its citizens. It shows that the Communist Party’s goal was never to join the democratic world, but to resist it and ultimately defeat it.