The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikotter

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

People's Trilogy #2

Frank Dikotter

376 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China, by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao's Great Famine."The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In Chin...

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