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Mao's Great Famine The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962

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ISBN-10: 0802779239

ISBN-13: 9780802779236

Edition: 2011

Authors: Frank Dik�tter, Frank Dik�tter

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 10/18/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.924

Frank Dik�tter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Before moving to Asia in 2006, he was Professor of the Modern History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published nine books about the history of China, including Mao's Great Famine, which won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2011.http://www.frankdikotter.com/

Preface
Chronology
Map
The Pursuit of Utopia
Two Rivals
The Bidding Starts
Purging the Ranks
Bugle Call
Launching Sputniks
Let the Shelling Begin
The Peoples Communes
Steel Fever
Through the Valley of Death
Warning Signs
Shopping Spree
Dizzy with Success
The End of Truth
Repression
The Sino-Soviet Rift
Capitalist Grain
Finding a Way Out
Destruction
Agriculture
Industry
Trade
Housing
Nature
Survival
Feasting through Famme
Wheeling and Dealing
On the Sly
Dear Chairman Mao
Robbers and Rebels
Exodus
The Vulnerable
Children
Women
The Elderly
Ways of Dying
Accidents
Disease
The Gulag
Violence
Sites of Horror
Cannibalism
The Final Tally
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
An Essay on the Sources
Select Bibliography
Notes
Index