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Mao's great famine :

by Dikotter, Frank,
Edition statement:Paperback edition. Published by : Bloomsbury, (London :) Physical details: xxiii, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm ISBN:9781408886366; 1408886367.
Subject(s): Mao, Zedong, -- 1893-1976. | 1900-1999 | Famines -- China. | Food supply -- China. | Mass casualties -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century. | History -- Asia -- China. | Political Ideologies -- Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism. | Economic policy. | Famines. -- China. | Food supply. -- China | Politics and government. -- China | China -- Economic policy -- 1949-1976. | China -- History -- 1949-1976. | China -- Social conditions -- 1949-1976. | China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976. | History.
Year: 2017
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900 - 999 951.055 Dik (Browse shelf) Available 109033

Originally published: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-404) 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.

This title provides an unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Leap Forward that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China.

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