9789123934218-9123934212-Peoples Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set By Frank Dikötter (Mao's Great Famine, The Tragedy of Liberation, The Cultural Revolution)

Peoples Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set By Frank Dikötter (Mao's Great Famine, The Tragedy of Liberation, The Cultural Revolution)

ISBN-13: 9789123934218
ISBN-10: 9123934212
Author: Frank Dikötter
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
Category: Asian History
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ISBN-13: 9789123934218
ISBN-10: 9123934212
Author: Frank Dikötter
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
Category: Asian History

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Peoples Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set By Frank Dikötter (Mao's Great Famine, The Tragedy of Liberation, The Cultural Revolution) (ISBN-13: 9789123934218 and ISBN-10: 9123934212), written by authors Frank Dikötter, was published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Asian History books. You can easily purchase or rent Peoples Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set By Frank Dikötter (Mao's Great Famine, The Tragedy of Liberation, The Cultural Revolution) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Asian History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.97.

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Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:
Peoples Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set By Frank Dikötter:
Mao's Great Famine:
Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the Western world in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known.
The Tragedy of Liberation:
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 Dikötter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court.
The Cultural Revolution:
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. But the Chairman also used the Cultural Revolution to turn on his colleagues, some of them longstanding comrades-in-arms, subjecting them to public humiliation, imprisonment and torture.

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