Hungry Ghosts Mao's Secret Famine

Name: Hungry Ghosts Mao's Secret Famine
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ISBN: 9780805056686

ISBN-10: 0805056688

ISBN-13: 9780805056686

Edition: Revised

Authors: Jasper Becker

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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 horribly wrong. Journalist Jasper Becker conducted hundreds of interviews and spent years immersed in painstaking detective work to produce Hungry Ghosts, the first full account of this dark chapter in Chinese history. In this horrific story of state-sponsored terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder, China's communist leadership boasted of record…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 4/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Illustrations


Foreword


Acknowledgements


Map


The Year Zero



China: Land of Famine



Arise, Ye Prisoners of Starvation



The Soviet Famine



The First Collectivization, 1949-1958



False Science, False Promises



Mao Ignores the Famine



An Overview of the Famine



Henan: A Catastrophe of Lies



Anhui: Let's Talk about Fengyang



The Other Provinces



The Panchen Lama's Letter



In the Prison Camps



The Anatomy of Hunger



Cannibalism



Life in the Cities



Liu Shaoqi Saves the Peasants



Mao's Failure and His Legacy



How Many Died?



How to Record the Annals of a Place?



The Western Failure


Afterword


Appendix: Biographical Sketches


Notes


Bibliography


Index