Source
Tier 2
Disclosed, not scored
来源
Frank Dikotter
University of Hong Kong. Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford
- Publication
- The Tragedy of Liberation, Bloomsbury, 2013. Second of the People's Trilogy
- Proof
- Open the work ↗Archived copy ↗Link checked 2026-10-04
- Land reform figure
- no land reform figure sourced
- Zhenfan figure
- not verified
- Method
- Communist Party archives, per his institution's own description, plus interviews and memoirs. Which archives, at what level, and how many documents, could not be verified from any readable source.
- Affiliations and stated position
- Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford. Listed as a speaker and in leadership pages of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an advocacy organisation. No party allegiance stated in his own words.
- Criticism
- Felix Wemheuer, The China Quarterly 219, 2014, a critical review essay whose grounds could not be read. Yinghong Cheng accepts his killing-by-quota framing but faults him for not asking why the ratio was one per thousand rather than two or three.
Where we use it
- 1Data story · land reformno land reform figure sourceddeaths
- 2Data story · great famineat least 45 million premature deathsdeaths
- 3Essay note 2Frank Dikotter, Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962, Bloomsbury, 2010, Chapter 7 'The Backyard Furnaces'.