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MAO'S GREAT FAMINE: THE HISTORY OF CHINA'S MOST DEVASTATING CATASTROPHE, 1958-62

Description: MAO'S GREAT FAMINE: THE HISTORY OF CHINA'S MOST DEVASTATING CATASTROPHE, 1958-62. Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011Between 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 led 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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Book Title: Mao's Great Famine

MPN: 10.99

Genre: History

Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

Subject Area: Economic Sociology

Item Height: 198mm

Item Width: 129mm

Author: Frank Dikoetter

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

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Subject: History

Publication Year: 2011

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 375g

Number of Pages: 448 Pages

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