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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
Mao's Great Famine The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe 195862
Author: Frank Dikotter
Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011 Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the Western world in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the greatest catastro...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781408886366
ISBN-10: 1408886367
Publication Date: 2/9/2017
Pages: 448
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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