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Frank Dikotter

Dutch-British historian at the University of Hong Kong — author of the People's Trilogy (Mao's Great Famine, The Tragedy of Liberation, The Cultural Revolution) — the most rigorous Western historian of the Maoist period in China.

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Jung Chang

Chinese-British author — author of Wild Swans (on her family's three generations through 20th century China) and Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday) — who produced the most widely read account of the Cultural Revolution from a survivor's perspective.

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