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The Tragedy of Liberation

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Tragedy of Liberation

By Frank Dikötter

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About the book

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 Dikoetter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walk...Show more

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9781408886359

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2017

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The Tragedy of Liberation

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Paperback

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