HKU Chair Professor of Humanities Frank Dikötter Appointed 
Senior Fellow at the Prestigious Hoover Institution
 

HKU Chair Professor of Humanities Frank Dikötter has been appointed a Senior Fellow at the Prestigious Hoover Institution with effect from September 2017. Established in 1919 and located at Stanford University in California, the Hoover Institution is one of America’s most academically respected public policy research centers. Professor Dikötter joins a community of more than 100 outstanding scholars and leaders that seeks innovative policy solutions to modern-day challenges. Other Senior Fellows in his field include Niall Ferguson, Robert Service, and Timothy Garton Ash.

Professor Dikötter joined the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong in 2006.

He is the author of the internationally-acclaimed People’s Trilogy about the Great Leap Forward (Mao’s Great Famine, 2010), the initial years of the People’s Republic (The Tragedy of Liberation, 2013) and the Cultural Revolution (The Cultural Revolution, 2016). The first part of the trilogy, Mao’s Great Famine, won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2011, the most prestigious British award for non-fiction. Professor Dikötter was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Leiden University, the Netherlands’ oldest university.

For further details of Professor Dikötter’s appointment please visit:

http://www.hoover.org/profiles/frank-dikotter

For media enquiries or individual interview requests, please contact Ms Natalie Yip, Executive Officer, Faculty of Arts, Tel: (852) 3917 4984 / email: natalie.yip@hku.hk.

香港大學人文學院講座教授馮客獲胡佛研究所委任為高級研究員

香港大學人文學院講座教授馮客 (Frank Dikötter) 獲胡佛研究所委任為高級研究員，並於2017年9月起就任。位於美國加州史丹佛大學的胡佛研究所於1919年成立，為美國最具學術權威的公共政策研究中心之一。馮客教授與過百位傑出學者及領袖以創新的思維，一同探討各項政策方案以應對現時的各種挑戰。與馮客教授專注於同一研究領域的高級研究員包括富格遜 (Niall Ferguson) 、Robert Service及 Timothy Garton Ash。

馮客教授自 2006 年加入香港大學歷史學系，曾編寫國際知名的「人民三部曲」──《毛澤東的大饑荒》(2010)、《解放的悲劇》(2013)、《文化大革命》(2016)。第一部《毛澤東的大饑荒》榮獲2011年塞繆爾．約翰遜獎，為全英國非小說類作品之最高榮譽獎項。馮客教授最近獲荷蘭歷史最悠久的大學──萊登大學頒授榮譽博士。

有關馮客教授委任之詳情，請瀏覽以下網頁：

http://www.hoover.org/profiles/frank-dikotter

傳媒綵訪及查詢

請聯絡文學院執行主任葉小姐 (電話: 3917 4984 / 電郵: natalie.yip@hku.hk)