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China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$38.00 NZD
Category: Social Sciences
'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
Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976: A People's History, 1962-1976 by Frank Dikotter
$22.00 NZD
Category: History
Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine.After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao l ...Show more
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "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 to and ...Show more
Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikotter
$23.00 NZD
Category: History
A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. "The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution that follow ...Show more
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