Red Dawn over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

Cornell University Lecture The 12th Lecture | “Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in Post-1949 China” Lecture Series Title: Red Dawn over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity Speaker: Professor Frank Dikötter (Stanford University) About the Lecture Frank Dikötter, the featured speaker of the Cornell University Lecture, is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong, a Milias Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a leading historian of modern China, authoritarianism, and political violence. Drawing on themes from his mo