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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times ... 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan .... *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archiv ...Show more
Dictators by Frank Dikotter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year. 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR. 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR. 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No d ...Show more
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter
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Category: History
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and ...Show more
Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikotter
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Category: History
A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. "The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution that follow ...Show more
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