Mao's Great Famine : The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

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  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2011)
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Mao's Great Famine : The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

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ISBN: 9781408810033
Authors: Frank Dikötter
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Date of Publication: 2011-05-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Economics, Politics
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Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the Western world in less than fifteen years. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known. Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors of power with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. This groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
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