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According to Wikipedia, Frank Dikötter is a Dutch historian who specialises in modern China. Dikötter has been Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong since 2006. Prior to that, he taught modern Chinese history at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He holds an honorary doctorate from Leiden University and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.

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The Discourse of Race in Modern China. (1993) (561)
Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-62 (2010) (217)
The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan (1997) (126)
Race Culture: Recent Perspectives on the History of Eugenics (1998) (115)
Sex, Culture and Modernity in China: Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period (1995) (112)
Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China (2004) (85)
Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China (2002) (64)
Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China (2007) (59)
Racial Identities in China: Context and Meaning (1994) (56)
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 (2013) (55)
Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects and Eugenics in China (1998) (55)
Sex, Culture and Modernity in China (1995) (54)
Group definition and the idea of ‘race’ in modern China (1793–1949) (1990) (44)
The racialization of the globe: an interactive interpretation (2008) (43)
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (2016) (43)
Things Modern: Material Culture and Everyday Life in China (2006) (35)
Mao's Great Famine (2010) (29)
Reading the Body (1998) (24)
The Promise of Repentance. Prison Reform in Modern China (2002) (24)
Narcotic Culture. A Social History of Drug Consumption in China (2002) (24)
Crime and Punishment in Post–Liberation China: The Prisoners of a Beijing Gaol in the 1950s (1997) (24)
Racial Discourse in China: Continuities and Permutations (1997) (23)
The Age of Openness: China before Mao (2008) (17)
Eugenics in Republican China (1990) (16)
Health and National Reconstruction in Nationalist China: The Development of Modern Health Services, 1928-1937 (review) (2011) (14)
Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America (2018) (13)
Race in China (2002) (12)
Women and Sexuality in China: Dominant Discourses of Female Sexuality and Gender Since 1949. . By Harriet Evans. [Cambridge: Polity Press 1997. x + 270pp. Hard cover £45.00, ISBN 0-7456-1397-7; paperback £13.95, ISBN 0-7456-1398-5.]. (1997) (10)
A History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in China (1997) (8)
‘A paradise for rascals’: Colonialism, punishment and the prison in Hong Kong (1841-1898) (2004) (7)
Sexually transmitted diseases in modern China: a historical survey. (1993) (6)
The Tragedy of Liberation (2013) (5)
'Patient zero': China and the myth of the opium plague (2003) (5)
The limits of benevolence: Wang Shiduo (1802–1889) and population control (1992) (4)
The Emergence of Labour Camps in Shandong Province, 1942–1950 (2003) (3)
Penology and reformation in modern China (2005) (3)
Ritual and Diplomacy: The Macartney Mission to China, 1792-1794 (review) (2011) (3)
The Discourse of Race in Twentieth-Century China (2013) (3)
Chapter Fourteen The Discourse of Race in Twentieth-Century China (2013) (2)
The Silent Revolution: Decollectivization from Below during the Cultural Revolution (2016) (2)
Racial discourse in China (2003) (2)
Why Racial Discourse Became Global (2011) (1)
Bret Hinsch: Passions of the cut sleeve: the male homosexual tradition in China. xvii, 232 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1990. $22.50. (1992) (1)
SITES OF HORROR: MAO'S GREAT FAMINE [with Response] (2011) (1)
Objects and agency : Material culture and modernity in China (2008) (1)
Response to ‘Hard facts and half-truths: The new archival history of China’s Great Famine’ (2013) (1)
Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction By Keith Mcmahon. [Durham: Duke University Press,1995.378 pp. £18.95 ISBN 0-8223-1566-1] (1996) (1)
History as Humanity’s CV: A Conversation with Frank Dikötter (2017) (1)
The History of Racial Theories in China (2017) (1)
Coping with famine in Communist China (1949–62) (2015) (1)
Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. By Hanchao Lu. [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvii+456 pp. $55.00. ISBN 0–520–21564–8.] (2001) (1)
East Asia (1997) (0)
Global science, national politics and assimilationist discourse in modern China (2003) (0)
Philip A. Kuhn: Soulstealers: the Chinese sorcery scare of 1768 . xii, 299 pp. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1990. £23.95. (1992) (0)
Emily Honig: Creating Chinese ethnicity: Subei people in Shanghai 1850–1980 . xv, 174 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. £18.95, $27. (1995) (0)
MATTHEW H. SOMMER: Sex, law, and society in late imperial China. xvi, 413 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. £35, $55. (2001) (0)
Anders Hansson: Chinese outcasts: discrimination and emancipation in late imperial China . (Sinica Leidensia, Vol. XXXVII.) ix, 193 pp. Leiden, New York and Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1996. Guilders 100, $64.75. (1998) (0)
Kai-Wing Chow: The rise of Confucian ritualism in late imperial China: ethics, classics, and lineage discourse . x, 344 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994. $45. (1996) (0)
Bamboo Stone: The Evolution of a Chinese Medical Elite . By Karen Minden. [Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. 201 pp. $54.00. ISBN 0-8020-05550-0.] (1995) (0)
1 ' Patient Zero ' : China and the Myth of the ' Opium Plague ' Inaugural Lecture given by Professor (2004) (0)
A Cultural History of the Syringe in Modern China (2002) (0)
East Asia (1999) (0)
Non-Western traditions: China (2003) (0)
The trail of time: time measurement with incense in East Asia . Shih-Chien Ti Tsu-Chi. By Silvio A. Bedini. pp. xxiv, 342, 132 illus. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1994. £75.00. (1995) (0)
Linda Cooke Johnson (ed.): Cities of Jiangnan in late imperial China . (SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies.) xiii, 310 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993. $19.95. (1996) (0)
Yeh Wen-Hsin: The alienated academy: culture and politics in Republican China, 1919–1937 . (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 148.) xv, 449 pp. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, Council on East Asian Studies, 1990. (1993) (0)
Crime and punishment in post-liberation China (2003) (0)
Chinese Society amid Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: The Roots and Nature of the Tragedy (2019) (0)
YE WEILI: Seeking modernity in China's name: Chinese students in the United States, 1900–1927. xii, 330 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. £35. (2003) (0)
The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to Individuality. Lung-Kee Sun (2003) (0)
Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China. By Laurence Schneider. [Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003. xi +305 pp. ISBN 0-7425-2696-8.] (2004) (0)
R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee (ed.): Land without ghosts: Chinese impressions of America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. xiv, 309 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, [1990]. $25. (1991) (0)
Chapter 7. Race in China (2005) (0)
Christian Henriot: Shanghai 1927–1937: élites locales et modernisation dans la Chine nationalist . 342 pp. Paris: Editions de l'Êcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1991. Fr. 190. (1992) (0)
Werner Meissner: Philosophy and politics in China: the controversy over dialectical materialism in the 1930s. Transl. from the German by Richard Mann . viii, 230 pp. London: Hurst & Co. 1990. £27.50. (1991) (0)
Crime, Histoire & Sociétés / Crime, History & Societies, Vol. 8, n°1 | 2009 (2016) (0)
China in Transformation. Edited by Wei-Ming Tu. [Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. 253 pp. £11.25, $16.75. ISBN 0–674–11754–9.] (1995) (0)
Gregory Eliyu Guldin (ed.): Anthropology in China: defining the discipline. (Chinese Studies on China.) xii, 217 pp. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., [1991] $39.95. (1991) (0)
Martin W. Huang: Literati and self-re/presentation: autobiographical sensibility in the eighteenth-century novel. xii, 237 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. (Distributed by Cambridge University Press. £27.50.) (1996) (0)
A history of the syringe in modern China (2002) (0)
Eugenics in Asia (2001) (0)
Kauko Laitinen: Chinese nationalism in the late Qing dynasty: Zhang Binglin as an anti-Manchu propagandist . (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph Series, no. 57.) xiv, 209 pp. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies; London: Curzon Press, 1990. (1991) (0)
Anti-drug Crusades in Twentieth-century China: Nationalism, History, and State Building. By ZHOU YONGMING. [Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. xii + 195 pp. £17.95. ISBN 0-8476-9598-0.] (2001) (0)
Review Article : Response To Arif Dirlik (1993) (0)
Paul Bailey: Reform the people: changing attitudes towards popular education in early 20th century China. x, 296 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. £30. (1992) (0)
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. By Carol Benedict, pp. xxii, 256, 12 figs, 27 maps. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. £30.00. (1998) (0)
HAROLD M. TANNER: Strike hard! Anticrime campaigns and Chinese criminal justice, 1979–1985. (Cornell East Asia Series, 104.) x, 253 pp. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. $17 (paper). (2001) (0)
Dikötter People ' s Republic of China Reading the Body : Genetic Knowledge and Social Marginalization in the (2006) (0)
Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the end of the qing World . By Pamela Kyle Crossley. pp. xvi, 305, 2 maps. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1990. US $39.50. (1993) (0)
Chinese history: The great leap backward (2010) (0)
Wong Young-tsu: Search for modern nationalism: Zhang Binglin and Revolutionary China, 1869–1936. (East Asian Historical Monographs.) xiv, 233 pp. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989. £18. (1990) (0)
The Yolk and the Ticks Popular Biology and the Perception of Life in Modern China (1895–1949) (2021) (0)
Roderick MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank (ed.): The Cambridge history of China. Vol. 15: The People's Republic, Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese revolution, 1966–1982. xxv, 1108 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £75, $120. (1992) (0)
Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan. By Sabine Frühstück. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. x, 267 pp. $19.95 (paper). (2005) (0)
Colin Mackerras and Amanda Yorke: The Cambridge handbook of contemporary China , x, 266 pp. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press, [1991]. £30 (paper £12.95). (1991) (0)
'Minguo shiqi de modeng wanyi, wenhua pincou yu richang shenghuo' (Things modern, cultural bricolage and everyday life in republican China) (2005) (0)
The Second Society (2019) (0)
China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past. By Paul A. Cohen. [London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, pp. xii+226. £18.99. ISBN 0-415-29823-7.] (2004) (0)

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The Tragedy of Liberation