# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-dikotter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:53:30.961Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-dikotter"
name: "Frank Dikötter"
slug: "frank-dikotter"
description: "Frank Dikötter is a Dutch historian who specialises in modern China. Dikötter is the author of The People's Trilogy, which consists of Mao's Great Famine (2010), The Tragedy of Liberation (2013), and The Cultural Revolution (2016), which aim to provide a description of Communist-led China."
tagline: "Dutch historian"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1961-11-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://frankdikotter.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump