The Tragedy of Liberation

The Tragedy of Liberation
Author :
Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 401
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781408837573
ISBN-13 : 1408837579
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Tragedy of Liberation by : Frank Dikötter

Download or read book The Tragedy of Liberation written by Frank Dikötter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Dik�tter 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.


The Tragedy of Liberation Related Books

The Tragedy of Liberation
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Frank Dikötter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-01 - Publisher: A&C Black

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Underground Asia
Language: en
Pages: 873
Authors: Tim Harper
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-12 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A major historian tells the dramatic and untold story of the shadowy networks of revo
Kazuo Ishiguro
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Wai-chew Sim
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-16 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Kazuo Ishiguro's writing has rapidly gained global recognition since his first publication in 1981. This guidebook offers a biographical survey of Ishiguro’s
Last Boat Out of Shanghai
Language: en
Pages: 546
Authors: Helen Zia
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-18 - Publisher: Ballantine Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending
Drugs of Abuse: The International Scene
Language: en
Pages: 461
Authors: Mangai Natarajan
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-15 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Globalization and attendant modernization has increased both the supply and the demand for drugs around the world. Drug abuse is no longer the concern of only t