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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Frank Dikötter

Historian of Mao's China, mass campaigns, and bureaucratic terror in the People's Republic.

Why this matters

Dikötter documents when moral language masks coercion—authority without accountable feedback.

Focus in observatory

Works

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The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976

Dikötter, Frank. *The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976*. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2016.

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