Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Before moving to Asia in 2006, he was a professor of the modern history of China at the University of London. He is the author of ten books, including Mao's Great Famine, which won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction in 2011.
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Following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, after a bloody civil war, Mao hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City, and the world watched as the Communist revolution began to wash away the old order. Due to the secrecy surrounding the count... SEE MORE