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A provocative book that demystifies China’s significant democratic leap backwards under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country’s embrace of capitalism has led to harsh authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and one-party rule instead of democracy, as the West had hoped.
When China began its transformative modernization journey in 1979, many believed that the country’s shift towards capitalism would end its totalitarian past and lead to the birth of a democratic, open society. Instead, China reverted to a neo-totalitarian state supported by one of the fastest-growing and most powerful economies in the world. *Broken China Dream* reveals the regime of strongman Xi Jinping, showing why post-Mao reforms have almost been reversed at every level — and why the world failed to see it coming.
By uncovering the truth behind China’s economic rise after the Cultural Revolution, Minxin Pei demonstrates how, after Mao’s death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping strategically used capitalist tools to preserve the Chinese Communist Party. Deng maintained the fundamental structures of totalitarianism while simultaneously allowing private enterprise and flirting with foreign investments, giving China’s one-party state control over an extensive coercive apparatus and the most critical sectors of the economy.
Only a fragile balance of power among rival factions prevented the rise of an authoritarian leader in the two decades after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989 — but this temporary equilibrium eventually collapsed. Vital for understanding today’s China, this carefully researched book offers a shocking account of why the country’s reformers and institutions failed to stop a skilled and ruthless politician like Xi from resurrecting dormant totalitarian practices, which for the foreseeable future signaled the end of the dream of a free and prosperous China.
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Type
- General History
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Number of Pages
- 344
- Release Date
- 02/12/2025
- Publication Date
- 2025
- Dimensions
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9780691223339
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