China's Dark History: From Ancient Dynasties to the Communist Party
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China's Dark History: From Ancient Dynasties to the Communist Party
39.99 €
The Mongols who attacked in the thirteenth century, the invading Manchus in the seventeenth century, and much later the Japanese in Nanjing in 1937, carried out veritable massacres, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Chinese men, women and children. But China has not always needed adversaries to create its own darkness. There are whole periods in Chinese history when the country shuddered with unrelenting civil wars, one of them was called the era of the Battling KingdomsTough However, the period of the Three Kingdoms was even worse. Then in the mid-twentieth century, the most brutal and bloody war between the Communists and the Nationalists took place. China's "Great Leap Forward" (1958-1962) and the famine that followed cost the country tens of millions of lives; the "Cultural Revolution" (1966-1976) also brought many deaths. There are many dark pages in China's history, some dark in themselves, others already legends passed down by word of mouth. "The Dark History of China" offers an uncompromising and entertaining account of one of the world's oldest and most enduring civilizations, from the brutal Zhou tyrant of the second millennium BC to the suppression of the Uighur minority today. The author's narrative touches on many topics, from barbarian invasions, the Battle of Red Rock, and foot bandaging to the Opium Wars, the last Emperor Pu Yi, and Internet censorship in the twenty-first century. At the same time, Michael Kerrigan gives a harsh assessment of the politics of modern China, especially in stories on the history of the PRC, which reflects the current trend in business, expert and journalistic circles in Western countries.
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