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China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
37.00 NZD
Category: History
'A leading historian of modern China. He is a rare scholar, adept in both Russian and Chinese . . . Combined with this linguistic skill, Dikutter has a writer's gift' EVENING STANDARD From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake ...Show more
Dictators by Frank Dikotter
25.00 NZD
Category: History
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 by Frank Dikotter
40.00 NZD
Category: History
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 and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. ...Show more
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikotter
37.00 NZD
Category: History
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly open ...Show more
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