Michael Dillon is Professor of History and Affiliate of the Lau China Centre, King's College London, UK. He was Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in 2009 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Royal Asiatic Society. He was founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, where he taught modern Chinese history.
introduction
Sichuan and France
Red Army Days and the Long March
With Liu Shaoqi in Government after 1949
Outcast in the Cultural Revolution
Return from Limbo and Struggle for Reform after the Death of Mao
Economic Progress and Political Stagnation
Deng Xiaoping and the 1989 Democracy Movement
Southern Tour of 1992 and the End of Obstacles to Economic Reform
Retirement, Bridge Player and CCP 'Immoral'
