Mao's Great Famine : The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (1408886367)

Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011

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 led 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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 448 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 27.94mm | 314g
• Publication date 09 Feb 2017
• Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reissue
• ISBN10 1408886367
• ISBN13 9781408886366
• Bestsellers rank 12,674

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