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.

• PART I. Transformation - Chapter 1: Sources of Modernisation and Reform - Chapter 2: First Stage of Reform: Agriculture and the Market - Chapter 3: The Second Stage of Reform: A Globalised China - Chapter 4: The Third Stage of Reform: The Global Production Line - Chapter 5: The Second Reform - Chapter 6: Xi Jinping’s Assertive Rule - PART II. Consequences - Chapter 7: Transformation Inventory: The Internal Scene - Chapter 8: Transformation Inventory: China on the Global Stage - Chapter 9: China and the West - Conclusion

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.

• PART I. Transformation - Chapter 1: Sources of Modernisation and Reform - Chapter 2: First Stage of Reform: Agriculture and the Market - Chapter 3: The Second Stage of Reform: A Globalised China - Chapter 4: The Third Stage of Reform: The Global Production Line - Chapter 5: The Second Reform - Chapter 6: Xi Jinping’s Assertive Rule - PART II. Consequences - Chapter 7: Transformation Inventory: The Internal Scene - Chapter 8: Transformation Inventory: China on the Global Stage - Chapter 9: China and the West - Conclusion

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.

• PART I. Transformation - Chapter 1: Sources of Modernisation and Reform - Chapter 2: First Stage of Reform: Agriculture and the Market - Chapter 3: The Second Stage of Reform: A Globalised China - Chapter 4: The Third Stage of Reform: The Global Production Line - Chapter 5: The Second Reform - Chapter 6: Xi Jinping’s Assertive Rule - PART II. Consequences - Chapter 7: Transformation Inventory: The Internal Scene - Chapter 8: Transformation Inventory: China on the Global Stage - Chapter 9: China and the West - Conclusion