Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 /
Dikötter, Frank.
Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 / History of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 Frank Dikötter. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Walker & Co., 2010. - xxi, 420 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0802777686 9780802777683
2010013141
Famines--China.
Food supply--China.
China--Economic policy--1949-1976.
Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 / History of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 Frank Dikötter. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Walker & Co., 2010. - xxi, 420 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0802777686 9780802777683
2010013141
Famines--China.
Food supply--China.
China--Economic policy--1949-1976.