- freedom, China, Dikotter, dictatorship
**From Amazon:** "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.
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Grave, earnest, epic and classical in form.
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About the book
- Author
- Frank Dikötter
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 406
- Publisher
- Quaderns Crema, S.A. (Acantilado), Bloomsbury Paperbacks, Czarne
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781408837603
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