Mao's Great Famine
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
By Frank Dikötter" So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the ...
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
By Frank DikötterAn unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China.
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
By Frank Dikötter... Great Leap Forward confirms Mao Tse-tung as one of history's greatest monsters ... Dikötter's tone remains calm and measured; he lets his actors speak for themselves' Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Mao's Great Famine reveals the ...
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Mao's Great Famine: Unabridged
By Frank DikötterBetween 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. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known.
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devestating Catastrophe 1958-62
By John Wagner GivensThe power of Frank Dikötter's ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China's attempted ‘Great Leap Forward’ lies not in the detail of his evidence (though that shows that Mao's fumbled attempt at rapid industrialization ...