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Frank Dikötter is the author of a dozen books that have changed the way we look at the history of modern China, including Mao’s Great Famine, winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2011. His work has been translated into twenty languages. His books include The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945–1957, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2014, and The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976, the final volume in his trilogy on the Mao era. He is Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
On Monday, he is coming on the show to give a breakdown of China over the last century, key players like Chairman Mao and Xi Jinping, and what the future holds for the country.
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Does he believe China is now under a “Benevolent Dictator” so therefore the average citizen is better off than the average Western citizen for it, or is it just a mean communist regime and therefore the average citizen is worse off compared to the average Western citizen?
I have read Frank's series on Mao's revolution, the great leap forward and the cultural revolution, great books. What strikes me is how scarcely people seem to know of these events, which may as well be the largest governmental fuck ups in human history. If people knew of these events, what do you think people and governments of today would do differently?