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Mao's Great Famine - The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Paperback)
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Mao's Great Famine - The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R517
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A groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine: winner of the BBC
Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the
brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with
great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Harrowing and
brilliant' Ben Macintyre 'A critical contribution to Chinese
history' Wall Street Journal 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 West 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.
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