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

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ISBN-10: 1620403471

ISBN-13: 9781620403471

Edition: 2013

Authors: Frank Dik�tter

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“The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a ‘liberation.’ In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence.” So begins Frank Dikötter’s stunning and revelatory chronicle of Mao Zedong’s ascension and campaign to transform the Chinese into what the party called New People. Following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, after a bloody civil war, Mao hoisted the red flag over Beijing’s Forbidden City, and the world watched as the Communist revolution began to wash away the old order. Due to the secrecy surrounding the country’s records,…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 9/24/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.44" wide x 9.43" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Frank Dik�tter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Before moving to Asia in 2006, he was Professor of the Modern History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published nine books about the history of China, including Mao's Great Famine, which won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2011.http://www.frankdikotter.com/

Preface
Chronology
Map
Conquest (1945-49)
Siege
War
Takeover (1949-52)
Liberation
The Hurricane
The Great Terror
The Bamboo Curtain
War Again
Regimentation (1952-56)
The Purge
Thought Reform
The Road to Serfdom
High Tide
The Gulag
Backlash (1956-57)
Behind the Scenes
Poisonous Weeds
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index