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Out of Mao's Shadow
Politics
Pan, the Washington Post's Beijing correspondent, profiles dissidents, lawyers, and officials caught between the Communist Party's control and an emerging civil society after Tiananmen. Each chapter is built around a single person whose story maps a fault line in post-Mao China. Collison flagged it as particularly great; alongside Age of Ambition it forms a two-book close reading of Chinese political economy.
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Patrick Collison
Flagged green (particularly great); complements Age of Ambition with a harder look at the political constraints on Chinese civil society.