Frank Dikötter

Frank Dikötter is chair professor of the humanities at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Mao's Great Famine, and Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China.

Unravelling the myth of China’s 'Opium Plague'

The image of China as an opium slave was the starting point for an international ‘war on drugs’ which, over a century later, is still being fought today.

By Frank Dikötter

/ 18 May 2016

Bring out the beast: body hair in China

In his landmark study, Soulstealers (1990), Philip Kuhn offered a riveting account of several cases of sorcery, which shook Chinese society in the second half of the eighteenth century. Under

By Frank Dikötter

/ 4 Dec 2002