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Hungry Ghosts : Mao's Secret Famine
Hungry Ghosts Mao's Secret Famine
Author: Jasper Becker
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage brought on not by flood, drought, or infestation, but by the insanely irresponsible dictates of Chairman Mao Ze-dong's "Great Leap Forward," an attempt at utopian engineering gone horribl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805056686
ISBN-10: 0805056688
Publication Date: 4/15/1998
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Owl Books
Book Type: Paperback
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