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The Temple Is Rich. The Monks Are Poor (w/ Frank Dikötter) Members Only #336

Moynihan interviews preeminent historian of modern China Frank Dikötter about Mao’s rise, the West’s enduring romance with Chinese communism and its staggering human cost.

Frank Dikötter is a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and one of the foremost historians of modern China. His research in overlooked and restricted Communist Party archives has transformed our understanding of Maoist rule.

-Frank Dikötter is kind of Dutch, but not really

-Writing the definitive history of Maoist horror

-Edgar Snow a…

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