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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore
'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre
'A critical contribution to Chinese history' Wall Street Journal
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 West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known.
Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors of power with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. This groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
Book Details
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
- Publish Date: Jan 9th, 2018
- Pages: 448
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.00in - 1.20in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9781408886366
- Categories: • Asia - China• Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
About the Author
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From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao. #ChinaAfterMao by Frank Dikötter is available online and in bookstores near you! https://t.co/4R8PoSgrVD
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‘The death toll thus stands at a minimum of 45 million excess deaths … Some historians speculate that the true figure stands as high as 50 to 60 million people’. Frank Dikötter, Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962., page 333. https://t.co/lauYrBerjI
Praise for this book
"A masterpiece of historical investigation into one of the world's greatest crimes" --New Statesman
"It is hard to exaggerate the achievement of this book in proving that Mao caused the famine ... only thanks to brilliant scholarship such as this will the heirs of the vanished millions finally learn what happened to their ancestors" --Sunday Times
"The most authoritative and comprehensive study of the biggest and most lethal famine in history. A must-read" --Jung Chang
"Gripping ... Prof Dikötter's painstaking analysis of the archives shows Mao's regime resulted in the greatest "man-made famine" the world has ever seen" --Daily Express
What people are saying
We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
We're very, VERY excited by the @BGPrize Winner of Winners award, to celebrate their 25th anniversary! Best of luck to: 🟢 Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran 🟡 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 🔴 Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter https://t.co/LfhJiAIuMI
The New Delhi office of Bloomsbury Publishing, publishers of fiction and non-fiction by authors including J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood and William Dalrymple.
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao. #ChinaAfterMao by Frank Dikötter is available online and in bookstores near you! https://t.co/4R8PoSgrVD