The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History with Frank Dikötter
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2022
- In anticipation of the opening of our upcoming exhibition, (De)constructing Ideology: The Cultural Revolution and Beyond, Frank Dikötter will present a brief history of the Cultural Revolution.
Dr. Dikötter, Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the author of People’s Trilogy, an award-winning series of books that document the impact of communism on the lives of ordinary people in China, based on new archival material. The first volume, entitled Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, won the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Britain's most prestigious book award for non-fiction.
The second installment, The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957, was short-listed for the Orwell Prize in 2014. The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976 concludes the trilogy and was short-listed for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize in 2017.
His latest book is entitled China after Mao: The Rise of a Superpower.
Thx for this interesting talk
What a wonderful talk. Dr. Dikötter is a gift and the Wende Museum has done well to host him! I’ve never heard of the museum before, but this was a great introduction to its work.
It is baffling to me that communism is not globally acknowledged as the most dire curse ever laid upon mankind just barely under death itself.
Interesting talk, but it completely ignores the U.S. role in China's history during the period. We were waging real (military support for the KMT and Taiwan, Korean conflict, CIA involvement in Tibet, etc.) and economic war against Mao's government from long before the founding of the PRC until we finally recognized them as the legitimate government of China in 1979 (three years after Mao and Chou died). China's post-1949 history was hugely affected by US policies that attempted to isolate China economically, and fear that the U.S., Taiwan and our allies were going to overthrow what we considered the illegitimate Chinese government. I would be very interested to hear Professor Dikötter's opinion on whether or not U.S. policies contributed to the problems of the Mao era. Thanks.
miserable sound, echo chamber, older people (i am 68) have trouble with understanding this.