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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How do you think people who support communism in western democracies reconcile the only reason hundreds of millions of Chinese were lifted out of extreme poverty in the last thirty years is because of trade with free market systems?
I'm an American. My whole life (im 52) America has been engaged some kind of military engagement around the world. If China is such a superpower, why havent they done the same thing?