China After Mao by Frank Dikoetter

China After Mao by Frank Dikoetter'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, award winning historian Frank Dikoetter recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers alike celebrate as an economic

in the realm of myth

One of the English language's best-loved living poets arrays before us here

Every word is the right word in the right place

But when his obsessions turn to fears

Scheherazade fashion

From the adulterous affair that caused Parnell's downfall to Queen Victoria's prurient obsession with the assassinations and the investigation spearheaded by the 'Irish Sherlock Holmes'

Weaving the dressmakers' remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation

Will the king's dark hand strangle all resistance

A disco at the end of the world

An essay by Liam Thornton (UCD School of Law) is also included

there is no easy victory

The period saw Trinity and its environs profoundly changed