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Mao's Great Famine

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Mao's Great Famine

By Frank Dikötter

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About the book

Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011Between 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...Show more

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ISBN

9781408886366

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2017

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1

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Mao's Great Famine

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Paperback

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