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Red Dawn Over China : How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity.

Red Dawn Over China : How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity.

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Frank Dikotter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People's Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao. He is married and lives in Hong Kong.