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Enjoy a series of Livestream interviews courtesy of The State Library of NSW at your Port Macquarie Library. Frank Dikötter will screen on Friday 13th March at 2.30pm.
Join hosts Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald for ABC Radio National’s Global Roaming live, as they discuss how communism came to conquer China with special guest Frank Dikötter.

FRANK Dikotter: RED DAWN OVER CHINA
Frank Dikötter lives in Palo Alto, California, where he is the Milias Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People’s Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao.
Red Dawn over China reveals how unlikely the Party’s victory actually was, had it not been for the financial and military support of the Soviet Union.
In this riveting tale told with great narrative verve, Frank Dikötter reveals how thirteen delegates, gathered in a dusty room in 1921, ended up raising the red flag over the Forbidden City in 1949, forever altering the course of history for a quarter of humanity and shaping the world as we know it today.
GERALDINE DOOGUE
Geraldine Doogue is a renowned Australian journalist and broadcaster with experience in print, television and radio. While originally planning a career as a schoolteacher after completing her Bachelor of Arts in 1972 Geraldine applied on an impulse for a journalism cadetship with The West Australian instead. During her career with both the ABC and commercial media she has won two Penguin Awards for excellence in broadcasting from the Television Society of Australia and a United Nations Media Peace Prize. In 2000, Geraldine was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for social and cultural reporting. In 2003, she was recognised with an Officer in the Order of Australia for services to the community and media.
HAMISH MACDONALD
Hamish Macdonald is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars, disasters and major world events. He hosts Mornings on ABC Radio Sydney and is co-host of Global Roaming on ABC Radio National. Hamish has won numerous awards including a Walkley for current affairs journalism and was named Young Journalist of the Year by Britain’s Royal Television Society. Hamish has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine, the nuclear disaster in Japan, uprisings in Hong Kong and Egypt, the London bombings and the rise of ISIS. Outside of Australia he has worked for Channel 4 News in the UK, Al Jazeera English, and America’s ABC where he was International Affairs Correspondent. In 2016 he became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.