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Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958 – 1962

by Frank Dikötter

An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China’s Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People’s Republic of China. “Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment en

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

448

ISBN

9781408886366