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Frank Dikoetter
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China’s Great Famine.
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Frank Dikotter casts China’s most tumultuous era in a wholly new light in The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976.
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A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People’s Republic of China by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao’s Great Famine.
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From internationally renowned historian Frank Dikoetter, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, a myth--shattering history of China from the death of Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping.
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'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan
A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater…
John Wagner Givens
Dikotter’s 2010 masterpiece catalogues the tragedy and the cover-up of the hideous famine caused by the Great Leap Forward-Mao Zedong’s disastrous attempt to jumpstart industrialization in China in the late…
From internationally renowned historian Frank Dikoetter, a myth-shattering history of China from the death of the Chairman to Xi Jinping.
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of China After Mao, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality.
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Frank Dikotter
Charts the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. This volume recounts how exotic commodities were acquired and…
In 1995 the People’s Republic of China passed a controversial Eugenics Law, which, after a torrent of international criticism, was euphemistically renamed the Maternal and Infant Health Law. This book…
This book is a richly textured social and cultural study exploring the profound effects and lasting repercussions of superimposing Western-derived models of repentance and rehabilitation on traditional categories of crime…
Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about…
Professor Frank Dikoetter (University of Hong Kong)
Previous edition published in 1992 by Stanford University Press.
The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China’s modern history. This book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed…
This fully revised edition shows how and why notions of ‘race’ became so widespread in China, now updated to include the continuation of this trend into the twenty-first century.
The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China’s modern history. This book argues that from 1900 to 1949, all levels of Chinese society…
‘Brilliant’ NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
‘Enlightening and a good read’ SPECTATOR
‘Moving and perceptive’ NEW STATESMAN
Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and…
This is the first systematic analysis of racial prejudice in China, a complex and sensitive subject that has been almost completely ignored by Chinese and Western scholars.
Professor Frank Dikotter (University of Hong Kong)
The concluding volume–following Mao s Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation–in Frank Dikotter s award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.
China was turned into a nation of opium addicts by the pernicious forces of imperialist trade . This study systematically questions this assertion on the basis of abundant archives from…
