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The Age of Openness
''The Age of Openness: China Before Mao'' is a 2008 book by historian Frank Dikötter. It provides an account of the Republican era of Chinese history, spanning from the early 20th century to the Communist Party takeover in 1949. In it, Dikötter describes a period of unprecedented openness during which China was actively pursuing engagement with the world, as evidenced by what Dikötter described as a pluralistic intellectual environment, thriving open markets and economic growth, and expanded liberties and rule of law.〔University of California Press, (Description ), The Age of Openness: China Before Mao.〕
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In the book, Dikötter challenged conventional historical narratives on China during the Republican period, an era that has traditionally been represented as a catastrophic time marred by famine, invasions, civil war and instability, the backwardness of which was only corrected with the triumph of the Communists in 1949.〔Kerry Brown, ('Review: The Age of Openness' ), Asian Review of Books, 3 November 2008.〕 As Bradley Winterton of the Taipei Times wrote, Dikötter presents evidence that China during this era was, "for a time at least, more democratic than many comparable countries in Europe (and almost everywhere else in Asia), less militarized per head of the population than might be supposed, with considerable stability and continuity in local government even if the central government was weak, and with a remarkably international perspective."〔Bradley Winterton, ('Book Review: Republican China rewritten' ), Taipei Times, 7 December 2008.〕
While Dikötter does not deny the devastation caused by the Chinese Civil War or the Japanese invasion, he nonetheless argues that the Republican period was a "golden age of openness" in which the country was making substantial progress toward modernity, boldly experimenting with ideas and market reforms, and building vast infrastructure projects.〔
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