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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
by Frank Dikötter
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize
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 fifteen years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of…
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