China: A Modern History Tapa dura - 2008

Michael Dillon is Visiting Professor in Modern Chinese Politics at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was previously at the University of Durham where he taught modern Chinese history and Chinese in the Department of East Asian Studies and was founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society. He has written extensively on Chinese history and politics and his many books include "Contemporary China: An Introduction," "China's Muslims," "Xinjiang: China's Muslim Far Northwest" and "China: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary" (ed). He has travelled extensively in China and carried out fieldwork for over 25 years and is a frequent commentator on Chinese and Asian affairs for the BBC and other international broadcasters.