"No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. In the twentieth century, modern dictators had to create the illusion of popular support without ever resorting to elections. Hundreds o...
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Frank Dikotter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People's Trilogy documenti...
An internationally renowned historian presents a history of China from the death of Chairman Mao in 1976 to the present, including recovery from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution and unprecedented four-decade economic transformation.
"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 R...
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine , 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...
Combining newly released documents from Chinese archives with stories from the disenfranchised masses of the time, Dik�otter recounts how Mao sought to prove the power of Communism, but instead plunged his country into a hellish existence.