The Tragedy of Liberation Audiobook Libro.fm

Bloomsbury presents The Tragedy of Liberation by Frank Diktter read by Daniel York Loh

The second installment in The Peoples Trilogy the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prizewinning author Frank Diktter

For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime this is essential background reading Anne Applebaum

Essential reading for all who want to understand the darkness that lies at the heart of one of the worlds most important revolutions Guardian

Diktter performs here a tremendous service by making legible the hugely controversial origins of the present Chinese political order Timothy Snyder

In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijings 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 Diktter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Maos 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