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China After Mao
'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 …
China After Mao : The Rise of a Superpower
A revolutionary book - Sunday Times 'The historian of China' - Spectator _______________ From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and …
Mao's Great Famine
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ‘A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag …
The Tragedy of Liberation
The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikötter ‘For anyone who wants to understand the current …
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
"A blow-by-blow account ... An important corrective to the conventional view of China's rise."--Financial Times From internationally renowned historian Frank Dik tter, winner of …
China After Mao
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962--1976
The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dik tter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After …
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
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. …
The Cultural Revolution
Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of ‘The People’s Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. 'The …
The Age of Openness: China Before Mao
The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history. But in this book, Frank Dik tter shows that the first half of the …
Imperfect Conceptions
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 …
Discourse of Race in Modern China
First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial …