Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
Autor Frank Dikötteren Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 feb 2026
'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed
From renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikötter - 'the historian of China' (Spectator) - a commanding new history of China's path to Communism, brought to the people at the barrel of a gun.
The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Red Dawn Over China reveals how unlikely the Party's victory actually was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union.
Established in 1921 under the direct guidance of Moscow, for the best part of a decade the Communist Party left a trail of destruction, besieging towns and plundering the countryside. When the Communists managed to hold territory, they reduced the villagers to a state of servitude, undermining belief in their cause as well as the local economy. By 1936 they had the same popular appeal as an obscure religious sect. A brutal war of occupation by Japan allowed them to survive far behind enemy lines. After Soviet troops invaded Manchuria in 1945 and provided more money and munitions, the Communists at long last prevailed through a pitiless war of attrition, driven by an unflinching will to conquer at all costs.
In this riveting tale told with great narrative verve, Frank Dikötter reveals how thirteen delegates gathered in a dusty room in 1921 ended up raising the red flag over the Forbidden City in 1949, forever altering the course of history for a quarter of humanity and shaping the world as we know it today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526670700
ISBN-10: 1526670704
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 158 x 238 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526670704
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 158 x 238 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Ever since Frank Dikötter's first book . . . this prolific star of China studies has challenged conventional truths and broached taboo subjects . . . Dikötter succeeds at bringing different strands together in a highly readable narrative that challenges the foundational myths of the CCP . . . A valuable reminder that today's China - the prosperous, technologically advanced superpower - is a country built on a foundation of violence . . . A tireless chronicler of the numerous crimes and follies of Chinese Communism, Dikötter once again shows his readers who was pulling the trigger of that gun
Frank Dikötter has rewritten the early history of the Chinese Communist Party from the ground up. Drawing on archival materials long thought inaccessible, he strips away decades of myth to reveal a story of improvisation, violence and opportunism. Written with precision and verve, Red Dawn Over China is the most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years
An iconoclastic history of communism in China that makes for unpleasant but ultimately important reading . . . This new book provides excellent coursework. Its author . . . is one of the most accomplished historians of modern China. Red Dawn Over China draws on a multitude of archival and other sources in Chinese, Russian, French, German and English to provide the most comprehensive and critical (in the best historian's sense of the word) one-volume account of the communists' rise to power yet published . . . His aim is to wrest back control over this crucial period in China's history and subject it to evidence-based scrutiny - in simple terms, to tell the truth . . . Dikötter exposes the shibboleths that characterise the official history of Chinese communism for what they are . . . Dikötter has produced a work of historical iconoclasm that will be challenged in some quarters and banned in others . . . A first-class piece of scholarship that sheds light not only on the many dark chapters in the communist conquest of China but also on the complicated wider environment that made it possible
An outstanding scholar . . . Perhaps in the distant future, the people of China will have the opportunity to compare versions of their 20th-century history and arrive at something like a balanced assessment. When that day comes, due credit will have to be given to Frank Dikötter for his achievement in ensuring, almost single-handedly, that accounts of this period are no longer the work of the victors alone
Frank Dikötter's books have changed the way historians view China. Red Dawn Over China is a commanding new history of China's path to Communism, brought to the people at the barrel of a gun
An account of the surprising realities behind the Communist party's rise in China, from years of plundered villages and minimal popular support to survival under Japanese occupation. Dikötter, an acclaimed historian of China, traces how, with Soviet backing and relentless determination, a marginal movement became a world force
Anyone interested in the future of the People's Republic of China should first study its past. Reading Red Dawn Over China is the best way to start
Frank Dikötter has rewritten the early history of the Chinese Communist Party from the ground up. Drawing on archival materials long thought inaccessible, he strips away decades of myth to reveal a story of improvisation, violence and opportunism. Written with precision and verve, Red Dawn Over China is the most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years
An iconoclastic history of communism in China that makes for unpleasant but ultimately important reading . . . This new book provides excellent coursework. Its author . . . is one of the most accomplished historians of modern China. Red Dawn Over China draws on a multitude of archival and other sources in Chinese, Russian, French, German and English to provide the most comprehensive and critical (in the best historian's sense of the word) one-volume account of the communists' rise to power yet published . . . His aim is to wrest back control over this crucial period in China's history and subject it to evidence-based scrutiny - in simple terms, to tell the truth . . . Dikötter exposes the shibboleths that characterise the official history of Chinese communism for what they are . . . Dikötter has produced a work of historical iconoclasm that will be challenged in some quarters and banned in others . . . A first-class piece of scholarship that sheds light not only on the many dark chapters in the communist conquest of China but also on the complicated wider environment that made it possible
An outstanding scholar . . . Perhaps in the distant future, the people of China will have the opportunity to compare versions of their 20th-century history and arrive at something like a balanced assessment. When that day comes, due credit will have to be given to Frank Dikötter for his achievement in ensuring, almost single-handedly, that accounts of this period are no longer the work of the victors alone
Frank Dikötter's books have changed the way historians view China. Red Dawn Over China is a commanding new history of China's path to Communism, brought to the people at the barrel of a gun
An account of the surprising realities behind the Communist party's rise in China, from years of plundered villages and minimal popular support to survival under Japanese occupation. Dikötter, an acclaimed historian of China, traces how, with Soviet backing and relentless determination, a marginal movement became a world force
Anyone interested in the future of the People's Republic of China should first study its past. Reading Red Dawn Over China is the best way to start