Beware: The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957, by Frank Dikötter. I read his book on the cultural revolution and was horrified by the scale of the violence. As I read this book, I began to realize that I was being told a great deal about the destruction wrought by the Chinese revolution. Large parts of this book are just stories atrocities. After some time, you wonder why you need to read this. The author barely touches on the equally disastrous reign of the Chinese nationalists. He says one or two things about them and it’s wholly positive.
I will not read another one of his books. I think China deserves a better government than one run by the communist Chinese party. I think Communism in China has been a disaster and tragedy. But if this book is supposed to be history that strives for some sort of objectivity, it fails miserably. This scholar just hates Chinese communism, and page after page is going to impart that to you.
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