Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
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Edition 13 (2011) Winner
Frank Dikötter
フランク・ディコッター
Furanku Dikōttā
Aliases:
Féng Kè / 馮客
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1961-11-30 （Stein, Limburg, Netherlands）
- Nationality
- Dutch, Netherlands
- Languages
- English, Chinese, Russian
- Residence History
- Netherlands → Switzerland → England → China → Hong Kong
Career
- Occupations
- Historian, Professor
- Active Years
- 1990-2024
- Affiliations
- Chair Professor of Humanities, University of Hong Kong, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
- Nominations
- Orwell Prize shortlist (The Tragedy of Liberation), Hessell-Tiltman Prize shortlist (The Cultural Revolution)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Geneva | History and Russian | Department of History | BA, MA | — | Switzerland |
| SOAS University of London | — | Department of History | PhD | — | United Kingdom |
University of Geneva
History and Russian
/ Department of History
Degree:
BA, MA
Country:
Switzerland
Majored in history and Russian language
SOAS University of London
Department of History
Degree:
PhD
Year of Graduation:
1990
Country:
United Kingdom
PhD in history in 1990
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Samuel Johnson Prize | Mao's Great Famine | ノンフィクション | The Samuel Johnson Prize | 受賞 |
| 2017 | Honorary Doctorate | — | — | Leiden University | 受賞 |
Samuel Johnson Prize
2011
Work:
Mao's Great Famine
Category:
ノンフィクション
Organization:
The Samuel Johnson Prize
Result:
受賞
Honorary Doctorate
2017
Organization:
Leiden University
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962
2010 HistoryDetailed account of the Great Chinese Famine based on new archival material, estimating tens of millions of deaths.
Great Leap ForwardFamineCommunist China
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945–1957
2013 HistoryExamines the establishment of the People's Republic with calculated terror and violence.
Chinese RevolutionCommunist RuleViolence
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976
2016 HistoryPeople's history of the Cultural Revolution using local archives.
Cultural RevolutionMao ZedongChaos
Bibliography
- The Discourse of Race in Modern China
- Sex, Culture and Modernity in China
- The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan
- Imperfect Conceptions
- Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China
- Patient Zero
- Narcotic Culture
- Exotic Commodities
- The Age of Openness
- Mao's Great Famine
- The Tragedy of Liberation
- The Cultural Revolution
- How to Be a Dictator
- China After Mao
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Archival-basedEmpiricalCritical of Communism
- Recurring Motifs
- Dark side of Communist ChinaPeople's sufferingPolicy failures
Legacy
Renowned historian of modern China, exposing Communist atrocities through archives; author of The People's Trilogy.