{"product_id":"red-dawn-over-china-uk","title":"Red Dawn Over China (UK)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eHIGHLIGHT FOR 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER\nFRANKOPAN, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Silk Roads \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Earth\nTransformed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cu\u003eFrom renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikötter – 'the historian of\nChina' (\u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e) – a commanding new history of China's path to\nCommunism, brought to the people at the barrel of a gun.\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists\nfighting in the hills for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking\nland from the rich and giving it to the poor. Drawing on a wealth of archival\nevidence, \u003ci\u003eRed Dawn Over China\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how unlikely the Party's\nvictory actually was, had it not been for financial and military support from\nthe Soviet Union.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEstablished in 1921 under the direct guidance of Moscow, for the best part of a\ndecade the Communist Party left a trail of destruction, besieging towns and\nplundering the countryside. When the Communists managed to hold territory, they\nreduced the villagers to a state of servitude, undermining belief in their\ncause as well as the local economy. By 1936 they had the same popular appeal as\nan obscure religious sect. A brutal war of occupation by Japan allowed them to\nsurvive far behind enemy lines. After Soviet troops invaded Manchuria in 1945\nand provided more money and munitions, the Communists at long last prevailed\nthrough a pitiless war of attrition, driven by an unflinching will to conquer\nat all costs.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn this riveting tale told with great narrative verve, Frank Dikötter reveals\nhow thirteen delegates gathered in a dusty room in 1921 ended up raising the\nred flag over the Forbidden City in 1949, forever altering the course of\nhistory for a quarter of humanity and shaping the world as we know it today.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for Frank Dikötter and the \u003ci\u003ePeople's Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Harrowing and brilliant' \u003cb\u003eBen Macintyre\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n'Gripping and masterful' \u003cb\u003eSimon Sebag Montefiore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n'One of the few books that anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century\nsimply must read' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Dikötter\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Palo Alto, California,\nwhere he is the Milias Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford\nUniversity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHe is also Chair Professor of Humanities at the University\nof Hong Kong. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the\nclassic \u003ci\u003eThe Discourse of Race in Modern China\u003c\/i\u003e to his\naward-winning People's Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under\nMao.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PANSING DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44870818431183,"sku":"9781526670717","price":32.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_2bb06317-491a-4ab2-b2cc-d82e21708a77.jpg?v=1772003233","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/red-dawn-over-china-uk","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}