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The Tragedy of Liberation is a tightly written narrative of the twelve most pivotal years in modern Chinese history … The book is also a dispassionate study of the way nations can pervert optimism and descend into lunacy by steady increments.

“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. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence.”

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 a gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.