Frank Dikötter
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"'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...