The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 - Softcover

Dikötter, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408837609 ISBN 13: 9781408837603

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2014

Synopsis

In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dikötter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.

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About the Author

Frank Dikötter lives in Palo Alto, California, where he is the Milias Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People's Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408837609
• ISBN 13: 9781408837603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400