Dikötter, Frank,
Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 / Frank Dikötter. - Paperback edition. - xxiii, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Originally published: 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-404) and index.
Two rivals -- The bidding starts -- Purging the ranks -- Bugle call -- Launching sputniks -- Let the shelling begin -- The people's communes -- Steel fever -- Warning signs -- Shopping spree -- Dizzy with success -- The end of truth -- Repression -- The Sino-Soviet rift -- Capitalist grain -- Finding a way out -- Agriculture -- Industry -- Trade -- Housing -- Nature -- Feasting through famine -- Wheeling and dealing -- On the sly -- 'Dear Chairman Mao' -- Robbers and rebels -- Exodus -- Children -- Women -- The elderly -- Accidents -- Disease -- The gulag -- Violence -- Sites of horror -- Cannibalism -- The final tally.
This title provides an unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Leap Forward that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China.
9781408886366 1408886367
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.
Famines--China.
Food supply--China.
Mass casualties--Political aspects--History--China--20th century.
China--Economic policy--1949-1976.
China--History--1949-1976.
China--Social conditions--1949-1976.
China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
HC430.F3 / D55 2017
951.055
Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 / Frank Dikötter. - Paperback edition. - xxiii, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Originally published: 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-404) and index.
Two rivals -- The bidding starts -- Purging the ranks -- Bugle call -- Launching sputniks -- Let the shelling begin -- The people's communes -- Steel fever -- Warning signs -- Shopping spree -- Dizzy with success -- The end of truth -- Repression -- The Sino-Soviet rift -- Capitalist grain -- Finding a way out -- Agriculture -- Industry -- Trade -- Housing -- Nature -- Feasting through famine -- Wheeling and dealing -- On the sly -- 'Dear Chairman Mao' -- Robbers and rebels -- Exodus -- Children -- Women -- The elderly -- Accidents -- Disease -- The gulag -- Violence -- Sites of horror -- Cannibalism -- The final tally.
This title provides an unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Leap Forward that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China.
9781408886366 1408886367
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.
Famines--China.
Food supply--China.
Mass casualties--Political aspects--History--China--20th century.
China--Economic policy--1949-1976.
China--History--1949-1976.
China--Social conditions--1949-1976.
China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
HC430.F3 / D55 2017
951.055