Frank Dikötter and the True History of Communist China
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Even if you think you understand the history of modern China. This show may make you think again. Historian Frank Dickotter. On uncommon knowledge. No.
Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson. A native of the Netherlands, Frank De Cotter taught for some two decades at the University of Hong Kong. before becoming a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution just last year. Frank's three book study of China under Mao, the People's Trilogy. has become a classic of Chinese history.
And now Professor Dick Cotter has published a book that represents a kind of Prequel. A history of the communists rise to power. Red dawn over China. How communism conquered
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