Frank Dikötter
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
55 editions
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2010
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
26 editions
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2013
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
31 editions
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2019
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The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
27 editions
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2016
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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
24 editions
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2022
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The Discourse of Race in Modern China
13 editions
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1992
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The Age of Openness: China before Mao
9 editions
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2008
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Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China
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5 editions
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2004
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Mao's Great Famine / The Tragedy of Liberation / The Cultural Revolution (Peoples Trilogy #1-3)
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The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
6 editions
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1997
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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”
― The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
― The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
“It was all about the world in the making, not the world as it was. It was a world of plans, blueprints, and models”
― The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
― The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
“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.”
― Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
― Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
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