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“A blow-by-blow account … An important corrective to the conventional view of China's rise.”--Financial TimesFrom internationally renowned historian Frank Dikötter, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, a myth­-shattering history of China from the death of Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping. Through decades o... Read More about 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 Dikötter, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, a myth­shattering history of China from the death of Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping. Through decades o... Read More about China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

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. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffi... Read More about How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong ... Read More about The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962—1976

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 Montefiore'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre'A critical contribution to Chinese history' Wall Street JournalBetween 1... Read More about Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62