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The second installment in The Peoples Trilogy, the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dik?ter
For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading Anne Applebaum
Essential reading for all who want to understand the darkness that lies at the heart of one of the worlds most important revolutions Guardian
Dik?ter performs here a tremendous service by making legible the hugely controversial origins of the present Chinese political order Timothy Snyder
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijings 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 Dik?ter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Maos 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.
Author: Frank Dikötter
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Published: 01/09/2018
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781408886359
Language: English
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