The Tragedy of Liberation A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-57

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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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781620403471
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Imprint: Bloomsbury Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 951.055
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xix, 376 , 16 unnumbered of plates
Weight: 454g
Height: 241mm
Width: 167mm
Spine width: 34mm