Dr. Frank Dikötter
Chair Professor of Humanities, Department of History, The University of Hong Kong.
e-mail: dikotter@mac.com
Some recent publications
- Dikötter, F. (2019).
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Dikötter, F. (2016).
The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976. Bloomsbury Press.
- Dikötter, F. (2013).
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957. Bloomsbury Press.
Texts to download
- Dikötter, F. & Shao, Q. (2017).
“History as Humanity’s CV: A Conversation with Frank Dikötter”. The Chinese Historical Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 166–182.
- Dikötter, F. (2015).
“Coping with famine in Communist China (1949–62)”. European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire.
- Dikötter, F., Laamann, L. & Z. Xun (2002).
“Narcotic Culture. A Social History of Drug Consumption in China”. The British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 317–336
- Dikötter, F. (1998).
“Race Culture: Recent Perspectives on the History of Eugenics”. The American Historical Review, Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 467–478.