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Author:
Dikötter, Frank.
Title:
Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-62 / Frank Dikötter.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xxi, 420 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Famines--China.
Food supply--China.
China--Economic policy--1949-1976.
Mao, Zedong,--1893-1976.
Mass casualties--History--China--History--20th century.
China--History--1949-1976.
China--Social conditions--1949-1976.
China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
China--History--History--20th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Two rivals -- The bidding starts -- Purging the ranks -- Bugle call -- Launching sputniks -- Let the shelling begin -- The people's communes -- Steel fever -- Warning signs -- Shopping spree -- Dizzy with success -- The end of truth -- Repression -- The Sino-Soviet rift -- Capitalist grain -- Finding a way out -- Agriculture -- Industry -- Trade -- Housing -- Nature -- Feasting through famine -- Wheeling and dealing -- On the sly -- 'Dear Chairman Mao' -- Robbers and rebels -- Exodus -- Children -- Women -- The elderly -- Accidents -- Disease -- The gulag -- Violence -- Sites of horror -- Cannibalism -- The final tally.
ISBN:
1408812193 (pbk.)
9781408812198 (pbk.)
0747595089 (hbk.)
9780747595083 (hbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)632083063
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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