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Dikotter, Frank

Mao's Great Famine : The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 - New York Bloomsburry Publishing 2010 - xxiii, 420p.

Includes Bibliography (349-361) and Index

1. The pursuit of Utopia
2. Through the Valley of Death
3. Destruction
4. Survival
5. The vulnerable
6. Ways of Dying


Combining newly released documents from Chinese archives with stories from the disenfranchised masses of the time, Dikötter recounts how Mao sought to prove the power of Communism, but instead plunged his country into a hellish existence

ISBN: 9781408886366 (PB)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
China Economic Policy
Famines China
Food Supply

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 94(31) / DIK