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04536aam a2200505Ia 4500 001 5E532C44836A11E9A449D30097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190531010136 008 101228s2011 nyuabf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780802779236 020 $a 0802779239 035 $a (OCoLC)694485876 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d AUM $d BDX $d CGP $d TTU $d IDU $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d WEA $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCL $d LS@ $d SILO 043 $a a-cc--- 050 4 $a HC430.F3 $b D55 2011 082 04 $a 951.05/5 $2 22 100 1 $a Dikotter, Frank. 245 10 $a Mao's great famine : $b the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 / $c Frank DikoÌtter. 246 30 $a History of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 250 $a Paperback ed. 260 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury, $c 2011. 300 $a xxiii, 420 pages, [8] pages of plates : $b illustrations, map ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-361) and index. 505 00 $t The final tally. $t Two rivals -- $t The bidding starts -- $t Purging the ranks -- $t Bugle call -- $t Launching sputniks -- $t Let the shelling begin -- $t The people's communes -- $t Steel fever -- $t Warning signs -- $t Shopping spree -- $t Dizzy with success -- $t The end of truth -- $t Repression -- $t The Sino-Soviet rift -- $t Capitalist grain -- $t Finding a way out -- $t Agriculture -- $t Industry -- $t Trade -- $t Housing -- $t Nature -- $t Feasting through famine -- $t Wheeling and dealing -- $t On the sly -- $t 'Dear Chairman Mao' -- $t Robbers and rebels -- $t Exodus -- $t Children -- $t Women -- $t The elderly -- $t Accidents -- $t Disease -- $t The gulag -- $t Violence -- $t Sites of horror -- $t Cannibalism -- $t The final tally. 520 1 $a ""Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake Britain in less than fifteen years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikotter's astonishing, riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. However, a new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era."" "Dikotter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward propelled the country in the other direction. It became not only one of the most deadly mass killings in human history--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also the greatest demolition of real estate in history, as up to one third of all housing was turned into rubble. The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments." "In a powerful meshing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, Dikotter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power--the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders--with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China. 650 0 $a Famines $z China. 650 0 $a Famines $z China $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Food supply $z China. 650 0 $a Food supply $z China $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a China $x Economic policy $y 1949-1976. 651 0 $a China $x History $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a China $x History $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a China $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Economic history. $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974. $2 fast 650 7 $a Economic policy. $0 (OCoLC)fst00902025. $2 fast 650 7 $a Famines. $0 (OCoLC)fst00920590. $2 fast 650 7 $a Food supply. $0 (OCoLC)fst00931196. $2 fast 650 7 $a Politics and government. $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741. $2 fast 650 7 $a Population. $0 (OCoLC)fst01071476. $2 fast 651 7 $a China. $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073. $2 fast 648 7 $a 1900-1999. 655 7 $a History. $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628. $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611023213.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E532C44836A11E9A449D30097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search