TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dikötter,Frank
TI  - Mao's great famine: the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 
SN  - 9781408886366
AV  - HC430.F3 D55 2017
U1  - 951.055 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Mao, Zedong,
KW  - Famines
KW  - China
KW  - Food supply
KW  - Mass casualties
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - 1949-1976
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -