Although he sees merit in Dikötter’s acclaimed new book on China, Red Dawn Over China: How Communism...
Frank Dikötter
From the very beginning of his career as a communist revolutionary, Mao Zedong (1893-1976) enjoyed humiliating, torturing,...
by Barry Brownstein Not long after Chairman Mao came to power in China, idealistic college students learned...
One can’t answer with a blanket Yes or No, since many different people and situations may be...
The words above refer to the famine itself and to the great scholar’s book about it, the...
Just a few years after the death of Mao Zedong—whose “merits outweighed his faults,” according to Encyclopedia...
“One historian based in the U.S. said he has chosen to work on non-controversial topics to maintain...
“Survival depended on disobedience, but the many strategies of survival devised by people at all levels, from...
In 1955, as annihilation of all that had come before was proceeding apace, Chinese business owners “voluntarily”...
Was anything good spared by the communist regime that took over China in the middle of the...
