TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dikötter,Frank
TI  - Mao's great famine: the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 
SN  - 1408886367
AV  - HC430.F3 D55 2017
U1  - 951.055 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Mao, Zedong,
KW  - Famines
KW  - China
KW  - Food supply
KW  - Mass casualties
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - 1949-1976
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Originally published: 2010; Includes bibliographical references and index; Two rivals -- The bidding starts -- Purging the ranks -- Bugle call -- Launching sputniks -- Let the shelling begin -- The people's communes -- Steel fever -- Warning signs -- Shopping spree -- Dizzy with success -- The end of truth -- Repression -- The Sino-Soviet rift -- Capitalist grain -- Finding a way out -- Agriculture -- Industry -- Trade -- Housing -- Nature -- Feasting through famine -- Wheeling and dealing -- On the sly -- 'Dear Chairman Mao' -- Robbers and rebels -- Exodus -- Children -- Women -- The elderly -- Accidents -- Disease -- The gulag -- Violence -- Sites of horror -- Cannibalism -- The final tally
N2  - "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."--Publisher's website
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