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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: tragedy of liberation
    sub title: a history of the Chinese revolution, 1945-57
  title info:
    title: History of the Chinese revolution, 1945-1957
  name:
    name part: Dikötter, Frank.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    edition: First U.S. edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: "'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.' So begins Frank Dikötter's stunning and revelatory chronicle of Mao Zedong's ascension and campaign to transform the Chinese into what the party called New People. Following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, after a bloody civil war, Mao hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City, and the world watched as the Communist revolution began to wash away the old order. Due to the secrecy surrounding the country's records, little has been known before now about the eight years that followed, preceding the massive famine and Great Leap Forward. Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, secret police reports, unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, eyewitness accounts of those who survived, and more, The Tragedy of Liberation bears witness to a shocking, largely untold history. Interweaving stories of ordinary citizens with tales of the brutal politics of Mao's court, Frank Dikötter illuminates those who shaped the 'liberation' and the horrific policies they implemented in the name of progress. People of all walks of life were caught up in the tragedy that unfolded, and whether or not they supported the revolution, all of them were asked to write confessions, denounce their friends, and answer queries about their political reliability. One victim of thought reform called it a 'carefully cultivated Auschwitz of the mind.' Told with great narrative sweep, The Tragedy of Liberation is a powerful and important document giving voice at last to the millions who were lost, and casting new light on the foundations of one of the most powerful regimes of the twenty-first century"--
  table of contents: Part One. Conquest (1945-49). Siege -- War -- Part Two. Takeover (1949-52). Liberation -- The Hurricane -- The Great Terror -- The Bamboo Curtain -- War Again -- Part Three. Regimentation (1952-56). The Purge -- Thought Reform -- The Road to Serfdom -- High Tide -- The Gulag -- Part Four. Backlash (1956-57). Behind the Scenes -- Poisonous Weeds.
  note: Frank Dikötter.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-362) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1945-1949
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 1949-1976
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / General
  classification: DS777.54 .D55 2013
  classification: 951.05
  classification: HIS000000
  identifier: 9781620403471 (hbk.)
  identifier: 1620403471 (hbk.)
  identifier: 9781408837580 (pbk.)
  identifier: 1408837587
  identifier: 2013031044
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130802
    record change date: 20151206090044.0
    record identifier: in00003416873
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng