Frank Dikötter is in Nederland geboren en groeide op in Zwitserland. Sinds 2006 is hij hoogleraar Humanistiek aan de Universiteit van Hongkong, voor die tijd was hoogleraar Moderne Chinese geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Londen. Hij schreef eerder een trilogie over Mao en China, die samen een indringend beeld van een deel van het Mao-tijdperk schetste.
Meer over Frank Dikötter'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 archival documents, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers alike celebrate as an economic miracle.
In a fascinating tale spanning five decades, he examines the country’s economic transformation alongside the regime’s determined suppression of dissent, its increasing hostility towards the West and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship led by Xi Jinping – one equipped with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world.
‘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‘A blow-by-blow account of the uneven, reactive and sometimes chaotic course of economic policies .
