This fully revised edition shows how and why notions of 'race' became so widespread in China, now updated to include the continuation of this trend into the twenty-first century.
This fully revised edition shows how and why notions of 'race' became so widespread in China, now updated to include the continuation of this trend in...
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 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 Dikotter's stunning and revelatory chronicle of Mao Zedong's ascension and campaign to transform the Chinese into what the party...
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
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China.
"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than fifteen years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives."
So opens Frank Dikotter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much...
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of ...
'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the twentieth century, hundreds of...
'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN Mussolini, Hitler...
Uznávaný historik Frank Dikötter vypráví strhující příběh moderní historie Číny a jejího hospodářského vzestupu po katastrofě tzv. kulturní revoluce. Díky ojedinělému přístupu ke stovkám dosud nezveřejněných dokumentů z archivů komunistické strany nahlíží do zákulisí čínské politiky od smrti Velkého kormidelníka Maa až po Si Ťin-pchinga a mapuje bezprecedentní čtyřicetiletou transformaci země, která ji vynesla ze 126. příčky na pozici druhé největší ekonomiky světa. Autor přitom zpochybňuje naše představy a mýty o společnosti,...
Uznávaný historik Frank Dikötter vypráví strhující příběh moderní historie Číny a jejího hospodářského vzestupu po katastrofě tzv. k...
