The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform

by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history

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's Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300267088
• ISBN13: 9780300267082
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 424 Pages