Frank Dik�tter is a Dutch historian who specialises in modern China. He is best known as the author of Mao's Great Famine, which won the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize. Dik�tter is chair professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on both Mao Zedong and the Great Chinese Famine. He was formerly a professor of the modern history of China from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Dik�tter's work has been described as 'Bold[...] and engagingly revisionist'. He stressed the adverse effect of prohibition of opium on the Chinese people as opposed to the effects of the drug itself in Patient Zero and called for the rehabilitation of the history of Republican China between 1912 and 1949 in The Age of Openness. His most recent books Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation deal with the early years of the People's Republic of China and specifically the terror and famine associated with it. 

January 1st, 1961 in Stein (Age 63)