From the award-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao. Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen municipal and provincial archives, as well as unpublished memoirs, newspaper reports and the secret diaries of Mao's personal secretary, China After Mao is a brilliantly researched and mesmerizing account of a country in flux - and in crisis. The rise of a superpower.