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Frank Dikotter’s Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity is an attempt to write an alternative history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Drawing on extensive archival work, the author constructs a narrative that runs counter to the story promoted by the CCP for the last 80 years. Dikotter argues that “The Party controls history, not only its own but also that of its erstwhile rivals”, and with this book, he offers an alternative lens through which to understand developments in China between 1911 and 1949.
The book examines in detail the birth of the CCP in 1921 and its eventual victory in establishing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. Dikotter also highlig...
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