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Frank Dikötter (English pronunciation: /diːˈkʌtər/ Chinese: 馮客) is a Dutch historian and author of Mao's Great Famine. The book won the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize.[2] Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on both Mao Zedong and the Great Chinese Famine,[3] and Professor of the Modern History of China from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Dikötter is considered to be a revisionist historian, having stressed the benefits of opium smoking in Patient Zero, as well as calling for the rehabilitation of Republican China under Chiang Kai-shek in The Age of Openness.[4][5]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Dik%C3%B6tter
Frank Dikötter (English pronunciation: /diːˈkʌtər/ Chinese: 馮客) is a Dutch historian and author of Mao's Great Famine. The book won the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize.[2] Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on both Mao Zedong and the Great Chinese Famine,[3] and Professor of the Modern History of China from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Dikötter is considered to be a revisionist historian, having stressed the benefits of opium smoking in Patient Zero, as well as calling for the rehabilitation of Republican China under Chiang Kai-shek in The Age of Openness.[4][5]
More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Dik%C3%B6tter