Frank Dikötter

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1) China after Mao: the rise of a superpower

Author

Dikötter, Frank

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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"Through decades of direct experience of the People's Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People's Trilogy offers a riveting account of China's rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to industrial metropoles and elite party conclaves--that...

2) Mao's great famine: the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962

Author

Dikötter, Frank

Publisher

Walker & Co

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

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"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake Britain in less than fifteen years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikotter's astonishing, riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but...