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Bogdan
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631941706
- Weight: 820g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 29 May 2026
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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The volume is the attempt to describe China's reform and opening-up under Deng Xiaoping aegis (1978–2018). Using the mixed approaches of political science, international relations, economy, sociology and culture studies (sinology), it attempts to show how the country – starting from political anarchy, economic autarky, backwardness, and a closed society – transformed into a global power centre. The study is supported by an extensive, multi-language literature: both Chinese and Western, with some Central European flavour. The author also utilises his rich personal experience in China (since 1976) and tries to explain and – above all – help readers to understand how the internal Chinese discourse has evolved.
Bogdan Góralczyk is a political scientist and sinologist, and a full professor at the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw. He is a former long-term diplomat in Hungary, Polish Ambassador to Thailand, and head of Polish diplomatic missions to Myanmar and the Philippines. He is an internationally renowned expert on China’s political culture and its history. He has written extensively on its transformation over the past four decades. His previous book is titled The New Long March: China in Xi Jinping’s Era, Peter Lang 2025.
