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

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 Dikotter 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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Frank Dikoetter, Frank Dikotter, Frank Dikötter
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 09.02.2017
• EAN: 9781408886359
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-8635-9
• Seiten: 400
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Serien: The Peoples Trilogy; The Peoples Trilogy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Zeitgeschichte (1945 bis 1989); Sachbuch; China, HISTORY / Asia / China, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, c 1950 to c 1959