Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea - Hardcover

Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea - Hardcover

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Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea - Hardcover

Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea - Hardcover

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by Katie Stallard (Author)

History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles in Dancing on Bones, as
she examines how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule.

Russia has annexed Crimea, started a war in eastern Ukraine, and repeatedly massed troops on its borders. China has stepped up war games near Taiwan and militarized the South China Sea, while North Korea has resumed missile testing and blood-curdling threats against the United States. These three
states consistently top lists of threats to US and European security, and yet the leaders of all three insist that it is their country that is threatened, rewriting history and exploiting the memory of the wars of the last century to justify their actions and shore up popular support. Since coming
to power, Xi Jinping has almost doubled the length of China's World War II, Vladimir Putin has elevated the memory of the Great Patriotic War to the status of a national religion, and Kim Jong Un has invested vast sums in rebuilding war museums in his impoverished state, while those who try to
challenge the official version of history are silenced and jailed. But this didn't start with Putin, Xi, and Kim, and it won't end with them.

Drawing on first-hand, on-the-ground reporting, Dancing on Bones argues that if we want to understand where these three nuclear powers are heading, we must understand the stories they are telling their citizens about the past.

Author Biography


Katie Stallard is Senior Editor, China and Global Affairs, at the New Statesman magazine and a non-resident Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. She was previously based in Russia and China as a foreign correspondent for Sky News, where she reported extensively from across both
countries, as well as North Korea, South Korea, Myanmar, Japan, Georgia, and Ukraine, and covered conflicts and natural disasters around the world. She broadcast under sniper fire from ISIS-linked militants in the Philippines, from Crimea as Russian forces annexed the peninsula, and from the front
lines of the subsequent war in eastern Ukraine. As well as the New Statesman and Sky News, her writing has been published in outlets including Foreign Policy, The National Interest, The Diplomat, and the East Asia Forum.

Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 1.05 x 9.5 x 6.25 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: May 02, 2022

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