A reference work

in #politics7 years ago (edited)

 

For some time now I would like to have brought this book to you. 

Published last year, its author is a Dutch historian who has written very, very well, about China. In  Macau, one day came to show his work at the University of St. Joseph,  where I had the opportunity to hear him out loud, but at the cost of  this invitation the French professor and political scientist who taught  there Had invited him. In any case, despite these circumstances and opportunisms of  convenience so unchristian, always coming from where it would least be  expected in the XXI century and on which the history will not pray, the  work of Frank Dikötter is internationally recognized.

He  previously wrote Mao's Great Famine, which in 2011 won the Samuel  Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, and The Tragedy of Liberation: A History  of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957. This time with The Cultural Revolution - The People's History  1962-1976, of which I do not know if a Portuguese translation already  exists, the author focuses on one of the most troubled and yet unknown  periods of China's recent history.

I  must say that the excellence of his work lies beyond his recognized  qualities as a researcher in the access he had first hand to classified  documents of the Chinese Communist Party, to police reports and to the  original speeches of the Chinese leaders before corrections . Considered a masterful book by the New Statesman, it deserved pages in  The Guardian, Julia Lovell and Rana Mitter, but also in the New York  Times, the South China Morning Post and many other newspapers and  magazines.

The  cover that I reproduce above is the first edition of 2017, from  Bloomsbury, which I own, and I strongly recommend this book to all those  who are interested in these issues and do not like to stay in the  branch of what is impinged on them, especially Now  that we have quickly approached the 19th Congress of the Chinese  Communist Party, which many believe in, will introduce significant  changes in the direction of leadership, further consolidating the  position of someone who, as has been written, now has more power than  that That Mao ever got. 

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