CSPAN2 Book TV February 5, 2011
>> thank you. it is a great honor to in my time with an important and difficult look like this one, so we have asked professor dikötter to begin our discussion tonight by giving us a short reading. i think anybody writing about a subject as huge and difficult to comprehend. inevitably he found a way to make it somehow intelligible and you break it down and write about it. and professor dikötter had taken a kind of mosaic approach. he uses the rich and often ghastly detail that he has painstakingly unearthed and archives across china. to come at the disaster on a number of different...
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