The violence at the heart of the CCP
Frank Dikötter charts the rise of Chinese communism through its brutality. But does he undervalue the role of ideas?
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Rana Mitter
Rana Mitter is ST Lee chair of US-Asia relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. His most recent book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Belknap Press).
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