Chaos & communism: China’s 1949 revolution

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🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Historian and journalist Graham Hutchings discusses his new book China 1949, which explores the events of a tumultuous year that saw communist victory in the Chinese civil war and the birth of the People’s Republic of China.

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