Hungry Ghosts - Mao's Secret Famine (Paperback, 1st Owl Books ed)

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage brought on not by flood, drought, or infestation, but by the insanely irresponsible dictates of Chairman Mao Ze-dong's "Great Leap Forward," an attempt at utopian engineering gone horribly wrong.

Journalist Jasper Becker conducted hundreds of interviews and spent years immersed in painstaking detective work to produce Hungry Ghosts, the first full account of this dark chapter in Chinese history. In this horrific story of state-sponsored terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder, China's communist leadership boasted of record harvests and actually increased grain exports, while refusing imports and international assistance. With China's reclamation of Hong Kong now a fait accompli, removing the historical blinders is more timely than ever. As reviewer Richard Bernstein wrote in the New York Times, "Mr. Becker's remarkable book...strikes a heavy blow against willed ignorance of what took place."

General

Imprint:	St. Martins Press-3pl
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Holt Paperback
Release date:	September 2000
First published:	April 1998
Authors:	Jasper Becker
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	380
Edition:	1st Owl Books ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8050-5668-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN:	0-8050-5668-8
Barcode:	9780805056686

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