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Frank Dikötter

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in Stein, Limburg, Netherlands

November 30, 1961

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Frank Dikötter (Chinese: 馮客; pinyin: Féng Kè) is the Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Professor of the Modern History of China on leave from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Born in the Netherlands in 1961, he was educated in Switzerland and graduated from the University of Geneva with a Double Major in History and Russian. After two years in the People's Republic of China, he moved to London where he obtained his PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1990. He stayed at SOAS as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and as Wellcome Research Fellow before being promoted to a personal chair as Professor of the Modern History of China in 2002. His r ...more

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	Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 4.07 avg rating — 5,023 ratings — published 2010 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 4.13 avg rating — 2,618 ratings — published 2013 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century 3.69 avg rating — 2,682 ratings — published 2019 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 4.06 avg rating — 1,986 ratings — published 2016 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower 3.90 avg rating — 944 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Openness: China before Mao 3.50 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Discourse of Race in Modern China 3.85 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann, Zhou Xun 3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mao's Great Famine / The Tragedy of Liberation / The Cultural Revolution (Peoples Trilogy #1-3) by Frank Dikötter 4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“But even as every promise was broken, the party kept on gaining followers. Many were idealists, some were opportunists, others thugs. They displayed astonishing faith and almost fanatical conviction, sometimes even after they themselves had ended up being devoured by the party machinery. A”
― Frank Dikötter, The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957

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“It was all about the world in the making, not the world as it was. It was a world of plans, blueprints, and models”
― Frank Dikötter, The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957

tags: communism-utopia

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“But in reality a dictatorship never has one dictator only, as many people become willing to scramble for power over the next person above them. The country was full of local hegemons, each trying to deceive the next one up into believing that their achievements were genuine.”
― Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

tags: china, communism

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