<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Dikötter, Frank]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Dikötter, Frank]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/hclib/rss/search?query=Dik%C3%B6tter%2C%20Frank&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:12:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered A Quarter of Humanity]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6843896</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6843896</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dikötter, Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6843896109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781639733972/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Be A Dictator]]></title><description><![CDATA["No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. In the twentieth century, as new technologies allowed leaders to place their image and voice directly into their citizens' homes, a new phenomenon appeared where dictators exploited the cult of personality to achieve the illusion of popular approval without ever having to resort to elections. In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikötter examines the cults and propaganda surrounding twentieth-century dictators, from Hitler and Stalin to Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung. These men were the founders of modern dictatorships, and they learned from each other and from history to build their regimes and maintain their public images. Their dictatorships, in turn, have influenced leaders in the twenty-first century, including Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Using a breadth of archival research and his characteristic in-depth analysis, Dikötter offers a stunning portrait of dictatorship, a guide to the cult of personality, and a map for exposing the lies dictators tell to build and maintain their regimes." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5961317</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5961317</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dikötter, Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5961317109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781635573794/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cultural Revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1966 an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to consolidate his legacy, unleashing Red Guards against all remnants of old culture. Soon rival factions were fighting each other in the streets with semi-automatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. The military intervened, turning the country into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. But after the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary villagers saw an opportunity to undermine the planned economy and resurrect the market - and thereby quietly bury Maoism. Written with unprecedented access to previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, this third chapter in Frank Dikotter's extraordinarily lucid and ground-breaking 'People's Trilogy' is a devastating reassessment of the history of the People's Republic of China."-Book cover.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6656304</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6656304</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dikötter, Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6656304109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A People&apos;s History, 1962-1976</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781632864239/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[China After Mao]]></title><description><![CDATA["Through decades of direct experience of the People's Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People's Trilogy offers a riveting account of China's rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to industrial metropoles and elite party conclaves--that vaulted the nation from 126th largest economy in the world to second largest. A historian at the pinnacle of his field, Dikötter challenges much of what we think we know about how this happened. Casting aside the image of a society marching unwaveringly toward growth, in lockstep to the beat of the party drum, he recounts instead a fascinating tale of contradictions, illusions, and palace intrigue, of disasters narrowly averted, shadow banking, anti-corruption purges, and extreme state wealth existing alongside everyday poverty. He examines China's navigation of the 2008 financial crash, its increasing hostility towards perceived Western interference, and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world. As this magisterial book makes clear, the communist party's goal was never to join the democratic world, but to resist it--and ultimately defeat it"-- Provided by Amazon.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6348187</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6348187</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dikötter, Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6348187109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Rise of A Superpower</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781639730513/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tragedy of Liberation]]></title><description><![CDATA["'The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a "liberation." In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence.' So begins Frank Dikötter's stunning and revelatory chronicle of Mao Zedong's ascension and campaign to transform the Chinese into what the party called New People. 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 country's records, little has been known before now about the eight years that followed, preceding the massive famine and Great Leap Forward. Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, secret police reports, unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, eyewitness accounts of those who survived, and more, The Tragedy of Liberation bears witness to a shocking, largely untold history. Interweaving stories of ordinary citizens with tales of the brutal politics of Mao's court, Frank Dikötter illuminates those who shaped the 'liberation' and the horrific policies they implemented in the name of progress. People of all walks of life were caught up in the tragedy that unfolded, and whether or not they supported the revolution, all of them were asked to write confessions, denounce their friends, and answer queries about their political reliability. One victim of thought reform called it a 'carefully cultivated Auschwitz of the mind.' Told with great narrative sweep, The Tragedy of Liberation is a powerful and important document giving voice at last to the millions who were lost, and casting new light on the foundations of one of the most powerful regimes of the twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4986833</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4986833</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dikötter, Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4986833109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781620403471/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mao's Great Famine]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4477852</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4477852</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dikötter, Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4477852109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The History of China&apos;s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802777683/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tragedy of Liberation]]></title><description><![CDATA["'The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a "liberation." In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence.' So begins Frank Dikötter's stunning and revelatory chronicle of Mao Zedong's ascension and campaign to transform the Chinese into what the party called New People. 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 country's records, little has been known before now about the eight years that followed, preceding the massive famine and Great Leap Forward. Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, secret police reports, unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, eyewitness accounts of those who survived, and more, The Tragedy of Liberation bears witness to a shocking, largely untold history. Interweaving stories of ordinary citizens with tales of the brutal politics of Mao's court, Frank Dikötter illuminates those who shaped the 'liberation' and the horrific policies they implemented in the name of progress. People of all walks of life were caught up in the tragedy that unfolded, and whether or not they supported the revolution, all of them were asked to write confessions, denounce their friends, and answer queries about their political reliability. One victim of thought reform called it a 'carefully cultivated Auschwitz of the mind.' Told with great narrative sweep, The Tragedy of Liberation is a powerful and important document giving voice at last to the millions who were lost, and casting new light on the foundations of one of the most powerful regimes of the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5018767</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5018767</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dikötter, Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5018767109</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781620403488/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperfect Conceptions]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4133689</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4133689</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dikötter, Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4133689109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780231113700/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex, Culture and Modernity in China]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4101931</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4101931</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dikötter, Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4101931109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780824816766/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>