How long does it take to read The Tragedy of Liberation?
The Tragedy of Liberation by Frank Dikötter takes about 7 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2013. 406 pages, about 111,650 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From Amazon: "The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence." So begins Frank Dikötter’s stunning and revelatory chronicle of Mao Zedong’s ascension and campaign to transform the Chinese into what the party called New People. Due to the secrecy surrounding the country’s records, little has been known before now about the eight years that followed, preceding the massive famine and Great Leap Forward. Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, secret police reports, unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, eyewitness accounts of those who survived, and more, and told with great narrative sweep, The Tragedy of Liberation bears witness to a shocking, largely untold history, giving voice at last to the millions who were lost and casting new light on the foundations of one of the most powerful regimes of the twenty-first century.
Subjects: freedom, China, Dikotter, dictatorship, History, HISTORY / General
