Red Dawn Over China - by Frank Dikötter (Hardcover)
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- From renowned historian Frank Dikötter, a commanding history recasting how communists seized power in China.
- About the Author: Frank Dikötter is the Milias Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
- 384 Pages
- History, Asia
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From renowned historian Frank Dikötter, a commanding history recasting how communists seized power in China.Book Synopsis
From renowned historian Frank Dikötter, a commanding history recasting how communists seized power in China.
In April 1927, soldiers and detectives descended upon the Russian Embassy in Beijing, revolvers drawn. An hour later, they emerged with a trove of documents, some of them partly damaged by Russians who had tried quickly to destroy them. In these singed and soggy papers was proof that Moscow, despite agreeing three years earlier not to "propagate communistic doctrines," had, in fact, sent what amounts to millions in today's dollars, along with shiploads of arms and advisors to support nothing less than a revolution in China. These findings are hardly ever mentioned by historians-until now. The history of modern China has long been framed as an organic enterprise, wherein Communists mobilized the "peasants," took land from the rich and redistributed it to the poor. Drawing on the Beijing raid as well as several other overlooked archives, Red Star Over China reveals how unlikely a communist victory actually was, had it not been for massive financial and military support from the Soviet Union; a brutal war of occupation by Japan; severe miscalculations by the United States; and-most of all-the Party's unflinching will to conquer at all costs. Frank Dikötter reveals how what began in 1921 with thirteen delegates in a dusty room led to a red flag being raised over the Forbidden City in 1949, forever altering the course of history for a quarter of humanity and shaping the global balance of power as we know it today.Review Quotes
"A blow-by-blow account . . . An important corrective to the conventional view of China's rise." --Financial Times on CHINA AFTER MAO
"Iconoclastic." --Wall Street Journal on CHINA AFTER MAO "[An] anatomy of authoritarianism . . . Dikötter's originality is that he counts crimes against civilization alongside crimes against humanity." --The New Yorker on HOW TO BE A DICTATOR "Pathbreaking . . . a first-class piece of research." --New York Review of Books on MAO'S GREAT FAMINE "A mesmerizing account of the communist revolution in China, and the subsequent transformation of hundreds of millions of lives through violence, coercion and broken promises . . . essential." --Anne Applebaum on THE TRAGEDY OF LIBERATIONAbout the Author
Frank Dikötter is the Milias Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People's Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao. He lives in Palo Alto, California.Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.12 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.0 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 384
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Asia
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Theme: China
Format: Hardcover
Author: Frank Dikötter
Language: English
Street Date: February 24, 2026
TCIN: 1003285988
UPC: 9781639733972
Item Number (DPCI): 247-44-1515
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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