Frank Dikötter

22 books

The Age of Openness: China before Mao by Frank Dikötter

The Age of Openness: China before Mao

Frank Dikötter

140 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 by Frank Dikötter

The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976

People's Trilogy #3

Frank Dikötter

396 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China by Frank Dikötter

Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China

Frank Dikötter

382 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction business history informative medium-paced
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter

How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

Frank Dikötter

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology informative fast-paced
Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China by Frank Dikötter

Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China

Frank Dikötter

288 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history philosophy informative medium-paced
Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikötter

Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

People's Trilogy #1

Frank Dikötter

448 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Lars Peter Laamann, Zhou Xun, Frank Dikötter

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China

Lars Peter Laamann, Zhou Xun, Frank Dikötter

331 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Sex, Culture and Modernity in China: Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period by Frank Dikötter

Sex, Culture and Modernity in China: Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period

Frank Dikötter

200 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikötter

The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957

People's Trilogy #2

Frank Dikötter

400 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Acht dictators uit de twintigste eeuw: de cult van persoonsverheerlijking by Frank Dikötter
Acht dictators uit de twintigste eeuw: de cult van persoonsverheerlijking
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Frank Dikötter

Acht dictators uit de twintigste eeuw: de cult van persoonsverheerlijking

Frank Dikötter

missing page info • first pub 2019 (editions)

dark informative reflective fast-paced