Hungry ghosts : Mao's secret famine /
In the tradition of John Hershey's Hiroshima, journalist Jasper Becker's penetrating account of China's four-year famine uncovers the truth behind one of the darkest chapters in history. Hungry Ghosts is the horrific story of the state-sponsored terror, cannibalism, torture and murder...
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New York :
Henry Holt,
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. China: land of famine. China: land of famine
- Arise, ye prisoners of starvation
- The Soviet famine
- The first collectivization, 1949-1958
- False science, false promises
- Mao ignores the famine
- pt. 2. The great hunger. An overview of the famine
- Henan: a catastrophe of lies
- Anhui: let's talk about Fengyang
- The other provinces
- The Panchen Lama's letter
- In the prison camps
- The anatomy of hunger
- Cannibalism
- Life in the cities
- pt. 3. The great lie. Liu Shaoqi saves the peasants
- Mao's failure and his legacy
- How man died?
- How to record the annals of a place?
- The western failure.