Dikötter writes accessible history and has won the prestigious BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for his book Mao's Great Famine. The author shows how and why notions o

This book is a study of a topic that is both extremely important and highly sensitive: how the Chinese have viewed other ethnic groups across time. The issue of

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Far from being a negligible aspect of contemporary identity, racialised senses of belonging have often been the very foundation of national, identity in East As

Accessible to general readers and full of valuable insights for specialists, China before Mao presents a fresh way of approaching the country's modern history a