Frank Dikötter

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Frank Dikötter (* 1961 ) is a Dutch historian and sinologist . He is a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the University of Hong Kong .

Life

Dikötter studied history and Russian at the University of Geneva . He then spent two years in the People's Republic of China. In 1990 he received his doctorate in history from SOAS. He then continued his research there and became a professor in 2002.

Dikötter is married and currently lives in Hong Kong.

job

Dikötter has written many books on modern China, such as Mao's Great Famine , which won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2011 .

Books (selection)

  • How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century , 2019
    • German by Henning Dedekind and Heike Schlatterer: Become a dictator. Populism, the cult of personality and the path to power. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-608-98189-6 .
  • The Cultural Revolution. A People's History, 1962--1976 . Bloomsbury Publishing, London / New York City 2016, ISBN 978-1-408-85649-9 .
  • The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Communist Revolution, 1945–1957 . Bloomsbury Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-408-83757-3 .
  • Mao's great hunger. Mass murder and human experiment in China . Translated from the English by Stephan Gebauer. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-94844-8 .
  • Things Modern. Material Culture and Everyday Life in China . Hurst & Company, 2006. ISBN 1-85065-815-3 .
  • Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China (with Lars Peter Laamann and Xun Zhou). University Of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN 0-226-14905-6 .
  • Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China . Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-231-12508-6 .
  • Imperfect conceptions: Medical Knowledge, birth defects and eugenics in China . Columbia University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-231-11370-6 .

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SURNAME Dikötter, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch historian and sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961