Frank Dikötter

_______________A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR‘A revolutionary book’ Sunday Times‘A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history – but above all to China’ Peter Frankopan, TLS'Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has shaped today's China and what...

A FINANCIAL TIMES HIGHLIGHT FOR 2026 'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed From renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikötter – ‘the historian of China’ (Spectator) – comes a commanding new history of China’s path to Communism, brought to the people at the barrel of a...