Frank Dikötter has published a trilogy on race, sex and eugenics in modern China, as well as books on crime and punishment, on the history of drug use and on material culture. His new book Mao’s Great Famine (2010) has been acclaimed by reviewers as the most complete picture to date of the depth and scale of the horrors inflicted on China during the Great Leap Forward. The nine books he has published have changed the way historians view modern China. He is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Professor of the Modern History of China at the University of London.