Frank Dikötter: Red Dawn Over China

Over a century ago, the Chinese Communist Party emerged as a band of radical, Soviet Union-backed countryside insurgents.

Now, it presides over one of the world’s major economic, technological, and military powers, with a population of 1.4 billion.

Isabel Hilton talks to leading China historian and Samuel Johnson Prize-winner Frank Dikötter about his gripping new history, Red Dawn Over China, unpacking China’s path to Communism and how it shaped the world we know today.The livestream for this event will also be available on demand after the event ends.