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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
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from xuebi
The Great Famine in China during the Great Leap Forward was one of the greatest man-made natural disasters in all history, with countless millions dying by official negligence and starvation. Frank Dikötter has had access to formally-closed archives on the Chinese mainland and for the first time ...
from VGAHarris
Methodical but informative.
from mnicol
Brilliant account. Horrible reading it.
from jcbrunner
I long refrained from picking up this book, not certain whether I could stomach the tales of horror and suffering. More than 45 million Chinese people died between 1958 and 1962, solely due to the mad superpower dreams of an uncaring dictator. This is a good account of one of the 20th century's l...
from Scapegoats
This book has some amazing sources and makes a horrific story sound even more horrific, but still fascinating. It tries to link the bureaucratic decisions from Beijing to local decisions made by cadres and individual decisions made by Chinese citizens. He argues that the Great Leap Forward was no...
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