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Just got me a 3 pack of books ![Rasta :rasta: :rasta:](https://data.irate4x4.com/assets/smilies/rasta.gif)
The Tragedy of Liberation 1945-1957
Mao's Great Famine 1958-1962
The Cultural Revolution 1962-1976
https://www.frankdikotter.com/
i'm going to try my hand at this book reading stuff. anybody else read the things?
by all rights, china should be the worlds super power of enlightenment. somewhere along the way from feudalism into modernization, they reaaaally fucked themselves up. if anybody has any good books about the subject, or really good books on chinese history in general, drop a line :)
edit: 1911 revolution to oust Qing empire, 1927-34 ccp vs nationalist civ war
![Rasta :rasta: :rasta:](https://data.irate4x4.com/assets/smilies/rasta.gif)
The Tragedy of Liberation 1945-1957
Mao's Great Famine 1958-1962
The Cultural Revolution 1962-1976
Frank Dikötter is the author of the People's Trilogy, a series of books that document the impact of communism on the lives of ordinary people in China on the basis of new archival material. The first volume, entitled Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, won the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Britain's most prestigious book award for non-fiction. The second instalment, The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957, was short-listed for the Orwell Prize in 2014. The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976 concludes the trilogy and was short-listed for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize in 2017. His last book is entitled How to be a Dictator.
Frank has been Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong since 2006. Before coming to Hong Kong he was Professor of the Modern History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Born in the Netherlands in 1961, he was educated in Switzerland and graduated from the University of Geneva with a Double Major in History and Russian. After two years in the People's Republic of China, he moved to London where he obtained his PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1990. He stayed at SOAS as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and as Wellcome Research Fellow before being promoted to a personal chair as Professor of the Modern History of China in 2002. His research and writing has been funded by over 2 US$ million in grants from various foundations, including, in Britain, the Wellcome Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Economic and Social Research Council and, in Hong Kong, the Research Grants Council and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. He holds an honorary doctorate from Leiden University and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
He has published a dozen books that have changed the ways historians view modern China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China (1992) to China before Mao: The Age of Openness (2007). Frank Dikötter is married and lives in Hong Kong.
Contact Frank Dikötter on his Facebook Page by clicking here or by sending an email to dikotter @ mac dot com.
https://www.frankdikotter.com/
i'm going to try my hand at this book reading stuff. anybody else read the things?
by all rights, china should be the worlds super power of enlightenment. somewhere along the way from feudalism into modernization, they reaaaally fucked themselves up. if anybody has any good books about the subject, or really good books on chinese history in general, drop a line :)
edit: 1911 revolution to oust Qing empire, 1927-34 ccp vs nationalist civ war
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