The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (Bloomsbury Publishing) draws for the first time on previously classified party documents. Frank Dikötter discusses his use of this material to interrogate the picture of complete conformity that supposedly characterised the last years of the Mao era.
Frank discusses his take on the Cultural Revolution and its impact on modern day China in conversation with ABC Radio National's Antony Funnell, recorded at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival.