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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times ... 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan .... *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archiv ...Show more
China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$37.00 NZD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
'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: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Dictators by Frank Dikotter
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year. 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR. 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR. 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No d ...Show more
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: From
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 and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. ...Show more
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