Generation Mao: Historian Frank Dikötter’s Take on Modern China

23 June 2016 (Thursday)


 

23 June 2016 (Thursday) – online              26 June 2016 (Sunday) – hardcopy

Professor Frank Dikötter from the Department of History spoke to Fionnuala McHugh of the South China Morning Post about his recently published book, The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History 1962-1976. His latest publication is the third in a trilogy on modern China, which also includes, Mao’s Great Famine, winner of the 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957.

Frank Dikoetter
Source: SCMP

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http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/1979870/what-drives-frank-dikotter-chronicler-chinas 

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