Böcker av Dali L. Yang

In Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control Dali L. Yang provides a definitive account of China's response to the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Examining the first six months of the outbreak, Yang details the government's handling of information about the epidemic and the decisions that shaped the scale and scope of the outbreak. Not just an unprecedented portrait of China's initial response to what quickly turned into a global pandemic, Yang provides a genuinely unique window into how the Chinese communist regime governs.

Examines a range of governance reforms in the People's Republic of China, including administrative rationalization, divestiture of businesses operated by the military, and the building of anticorruption mechanisms. The author also analyzes how China's leaders have reformed institutions and constructed new ones to cope with unruly markets.

Economic liberalisation has led to disparities of wealth between the different regions of China, in turn leading to tensions. This book is an authoritative study of an issue that will remain high on China's political agenda in the future.

This is the first book-length treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine (1959-61), one of the worst tragedies in human history.