| The discourse of race in modern China F Dikötter Oxford University Press, 2015 | 1845 | 2015 |
| Mao's great famine: the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-62 F Dikötter A&C Black, 2010 | 1390 | 2010 |
| Sex, culture, and modernity in China: Medical science and the construction of sexual identities in the early Republican period F Dikötter University of Hawaii Press, 1995 | 524 | 1995 |
| Race culture: Recent perspectives on the history of eugenics F Dikötter The American Historical Review 103 (2), 467-478, 1998 | 338 | 1998 |
| The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962—1976 F Dikötter Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2016 | 324 | 2016 |
| The construction of racial identities in China and Japan: Historical and contemporary perspectives F Dikötter University of Hawaii Press, 1997 | 319 | 1997 |
| Narcotic culture: a history of drugs in China F Dikötter, LP Laamann, Z Xun Cornell University Press, 2004 | 318 | 2004 |
| Imperfect conceptions: Medical knowledge, birth defects, and eugenics in China F Dikötter Columbia University Press, 1998 | 279 | 1998 |
| The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 F Dikotter Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2015 | 249 | 2015 |
| The age of openness: China before Mao F Dikotter Hong Kong University Press, 2008 | 208 | 2008 |
| Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China F Dikötter Columbia University Press, 2002 | 196 | 2002 |
| Exotic commodities: Modern objects and everyday life in China F Dikötter Columbia University Press, 2007 | 185 | 2007 |
| Cultures of confinement: a history of the prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America F Dikötter, I Brown Cornell University Press, 2018 | 164 | 2018 |
| Racial identities in China: Context and meaning F Dikötter The China Quarterly 138, 404-412, 1994 | 121 | 1994 |
| Culture," race" and nation: The formation of national identity in twentieth century China F Dikötter Journal of International Affairs, 590-605, 1996 | 115 | 1996 |
| Racial discourse in China: continuities and permutations F Dikötter Hurst, 1997 | 111 | 1997 |
| Things Modern. Material Culture and Everyday Life in China F Dikötter Hurst and Co., 2007 | 106 | 2007 |
| The Racialisation of the Globe: An Interactive Interpretation F Dikötter Ethnic and Racial Studies 31, 1478-1496, 2008 | 95 | 2008 |
| Group definition and the idea of ‘race’in modern China (1793–1949) F Dikötter Ethnic and Racial Studies 13 (3), 420-432, 1990 | 86 | 1990 |
| Dictators: The cult of personality in the twentieth century F Dikötter Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020 | 66 | 2020 |
