Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 /
"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 t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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New York, New York :
Walker & Company,
2011.
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| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
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| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Basbanes copy contains one piece of ephemera. Includes Chronology 1949-1966. First U.S. edition published by Walker & Company in 2010. The Cushing Library/Basbanes Collection copy is part of the Nicholas A. Basbanes Collection. |
| Physical Description: | xxiii, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, plates ; 21 cm |
| Awards: | Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (unnumbered pages 349-361) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780802779236 0802779239 |