China’s Great Transformation - by Nicholas Mulder

Part II: A review of Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian's latest book.

China’s Great Transformation Part II: A review of Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian's latest book. Nicholas Mulder Feb 25, 2026 36 4 Share This is the second part of my review of two “Great Transformation” books. The first, Branko Milanovic’s The Great Global Transformation: Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World (Allen Lane, 2025), is here. This part turns to Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform (Yale, 2024). All books that study transformative periods have some underlying theory of historical change. Authors either explicitly formulate

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