A blow-by-blow account . . . An important corrective to the conventional view of China's rise.

Financial Times on CHINA AFTER MAO

Iconoclastic.

Wall Street Journal on CHINA AFTER MAO

[An] anatomy of authoritarianism . . . Dikötter's originality is that he counts crimes against civilization alongside crimes against humanity.

The New Yorker on HOW TO BE A DICTATOR

Pathbreaking . . . a first-class piece of research.

New York Review of Books on MAO'S GREAT FAMINE

A mesmerizing account of the communist revolution in China, and the subsequent transformation of hundreds of millions of lives through violence, coercion and broken promises . . . essential.

Anne Applebaum on THE TRAGEDY OF LIBERATION