Frank Dikötter, Walker, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8027-7768-3
Taking advantage of newly opened Party archives, Dikötter, a University of London historian who has specialized in modern China, presents a bleak, gruesomely detailed account of perhaps history's worst famine. A decade after assuming power, Mao...
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Frank Dikötter. Bloomsbury, $30 (400) ISBN 978-1-62040-347-1
Dikötter’s Mao’s Great Famine (2010) won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2011, and his prequel is just as well composed and heartbreaking to read. He draws on Chinese archives to detail the depth of tragedy, oppression,...
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Frank Dikötter. Bloomsbury, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-63286-421-5
In this richly documented final volume of a trilogy on the Maoist era, Dikötter, Samuel Johnson Prize winner for Mao’s Great Famine and professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong, powerfully captures Mao Zedong’s China during the...
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Frank Dikötter. Bloomsbury, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-63557-379-4
Dikötter (The Cultural Revolution), a University of Hong Kong humanities professor, explores modern dictators and their “illusion of popular support” in this richly detailed yet disappointing study. Focusing on eight authoritarian regimes, including
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