DIKOTTER

A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times'A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history - but above all to China' Peter Frankopan, TLS'Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has shaped today's China and what the Chinese Communist Party's choices mean for the rest of the world' New Statesman Books of the YearChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2023_______________From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman MaoIn China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dikotter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports. Un

Dikotter's 2010 masterpiece catalogues the tragedy and the cover-up of the hideous famine caused by the Great Leap Forward-Mao Zedong's disastrous attempt to jumpstart industrialization in China in th

The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth c

After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958-1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate t

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. After the economic disaste

""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 with and overtake Britain in less than fifteen years.

"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 overtake Britain in less than 15 years Th

"In this succinct and vigorous book, Frank Dikotter presents a cornucopia of graphic examples to show that China in the first half of the twentieth century, far from being in a state of decay that cal

"Exotic Commodities" is the first book to chart the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. Richly illustrated and revealin

This close examination of the Chinese prison system during the first half of the 20th century emphasizes the consequences of the superimposed Western-derived models of repentance and rehabilitation on

In 1995, the People's Republic of China passed a controversial Eugenics Law, stressing prevention of "inferior births." Using this statute as a springboard, the author explores the contexts and histor

個人崇拜，是暴政的核心 二十世紀的獨裁者，如何精心打造受人民景仰的虛偽形象 同樣的招數，是否也正在當今社會上演？ 《經濟學人》2019年度最佳選書 《解放的悲劇》、《文化大革命》作者 揭露當代中國真相的歷史學家 馮客 全新力作 二十世紀八大獨裁者： 義大利――墨索里尼 德國――希特勒 蘇聯――史達林 中國――毛澤東 北韓――金日成 海地――杜瓦利埃 羅馬尼亞――希奧塞古 衣索比亞――門格斯圖 整個

歷史傳記暢銷作家張戎：這是一本必讀的書。 少數民族、宗教團體、農民、藝術家、企業家、質疑各項政策的黨員……他們才是受到這場巨大災難影響的普通人，但他們的故事幾乎被歷史淹沒 《周日泰晤士報》年度歷史好書、入圍歐威爾獎 《觀察家報》、《華爾街日報》、《科克斯評論》、《出版人週刊》、《紐約書評》、《時代雜誌》、《衛報》、《金融時報》……推薦！ 以人民視角書寫中國革命史的最新觀點！揭開毛澤東宣傳假面，還原中共建國真相！ 人民發聲的歷史，是正史難以承載的生命重量。來自中國檔案館的大量證據，揭開黃金時代的恐怖真相！ 中國共產黨將1949年的勝利稱作「解放」，看到這個詞，人們通常會聯想到興高采烈的群眾湧上街頭慶祝重獲自由的情景。然而在中國，「解放」和「革命」的故事卻與和平、自由及正義無關，而是充滿了精心策劃的恐怖和有組織的暴力。解放後，廣大中國人民面對的是「一座精心設計的奧許維茲思想集中營」。共產黨政權建立不到十年，已經無人敢反對毛主席。 首當其衝的是地主，共產黨在農村發動的土地改革，其實是黨和窮人之間的血腥交易、一場精心策劃的殺戮，導致兩百萬地主遭到清算。接著是鎮壓反革命的恐怖運動，目地是消滅所有黨的敵人，毛澤東甚至設定了殺人指標。為達成殺人指標，幹部們往往只是隨機挑選殺害對象，最後有將近兩百萬人遇害。然後是少數民族、宗教團體、農民、藝術家、企業家、工商業主、教師、學者，以及對各項政策提出質疑的黨員…… 《解放的悲劇：中國革命史1945-1957（當代中國史學家馮客三部曲）》的主角就是受到這場巨大災難影響的普通人。他們的故事大多被歷史所淹沒，因為官方的宣傳報導中只充斥著大量領導人的談話，而這些談話只是描述了一個他們想要建成的社會，最多只能算是設計藍圖，並不能反映社會現實，而且通常只提到工人和農民中的模範人物，找不到有血有肉的普通人。 當代中國史學家、《文化大革命：人民的歷史1962-1976》作者馮客擷取近年才得以公開的檔案資料。他所蒐集的數百份來自中國各檔案館、從未解密的檔案文件中，包括祕密警察的報告、未經篡改的高級領導人的演講、在思想改造運動中寫的悔過書、對農村反抗事件的調查報告、鎮反運動的詳細統計資料、工人工作條件的調查、普通人的上訪信件等內容。輔以各種回憶錄、信件和日記，以及親身經歷者的記述，勾勒出那些革命的主要參與者和受害者的真實故事。 那些早期的親歷者所留下

'China was turned into a nation of opium addicts by the pernicious forces of imperialist trade.' This book systematically questions this assertion, showing that opium had few harmful effects on either

Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in

To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium—a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the "war on drugs," which lasted roughly sixty years, from 1880 to World War II and the beginning of Chinese communism. But, as Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition.In a stunning historical reversal, Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun tell this different story of the relationship between opium and the Chinese. They reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals wit