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020 _a9781408886366 (PB)
041 _aeng
080 _a94(31)
_bDIK
100 _aDikotter, Frank
245 _aMao's Great Famine
_b: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
260 _bBloomsburry Publishing
_c2010
_aNew York
300 _axxiii, 420p.
504 _aIncludes Bibliography (349-361) and Index
505 _a1. The pursuit of Utopia 2. Through the Valley of Death 3. Destruction 4. Survival 5. The vulnerable 6. Ways of Dying
520 _aCombining 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
650 _aChina Economic Policy
650 _aFamines China
650 _aFood Supply
690 _aGeneral
942 _cBK
999 _c60411
_d60411