Register now to join us for the book launch of Red Dawn Over China and understand the origins of China’s communist revolution. Frank Dikötter will be in discussion with Orville Schell.
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The Communist victory in China’s civil war and the birth of a new state in 1949
In 1949, Communist forces led by Mao Zedong defeated the Nationalist government in the final phase of the Chinese Civil War, establishing the People’s Republic of China. The conflict between the ...
State accounts of the triumph of the Chinese Communist Party have whitewashed the atrocities that were central to Mao’s rise to power.
Vietnam has its own version of that turning point in history 80 years ago when the Japanese lost World War II — and their rule over much of Asia. Just as Communist China celebrates the occasion as a ...
After the second world war, Soviet intervention transformed China’s Communist Party from a battered, marginalised guerrilla force into a heavily armed military machine. Read histories approved by the ...
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The Impossible Story of Commumism
The story of communism is one of the greatest tragedies in modern history. The movement grew, above all, out of horror at the ...
From the war in Ukraine to the horrific terror attack on Oct. 7 and the subsequent conflict in the Middle East to the roiling waters of the South China Sea, the world ...
Celebrate Chinese People, Not Politics Isabel Hilton argued in the Guardian that China's rise is an accomplishment of the Chinese people despite its political leadership. "The message is one of ...
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