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Ordinary Chinese citizens traded their memories of the Cultural Revolution for greater prosperity The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976 By Frank Dikötter, Bloomsbury Press, 432 pages, ...

For years, one of the most powerful accounts of the Chinese revolution in the countryside was the American socialist William Hinton's memoir Fanshen (1966). Hinton used his own observations to assess ...

Frank Dikötter has written a masterly book that should be read not just by anybody interested in modern Chinese history but also by anybody concerned with the way in which a simple idea propagated by ...

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In his new literary piece, award-winning academician Frank Dikotter talks about how naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. The book also makes the ...

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong ...