What to Read After Mao's great famine
Readers who loved Mao's great famine by Frank Dikötter keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Mao's great famine is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Mao's great famine
Mao
The Party
Mao's last revolution
The search for modern China
China
Hungry ghosts
Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
The private life of Chairman Mao
Penguin History of Modern China
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
Nixon and Mao
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories
Nothing to envy
Empress Dowager Cixi
The generalissimo
The Rape of Nanking
The tragedy of liberation
The Opium War
The Corpse Walker
The cultural revolution
Die Vergewaltigung von Nanking
The aquariums of Pyongyang
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader
Gulag