Mao's great famine the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962

""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 t...

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Main Author: Dikötter, Frank.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Walker & Co., 2010.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
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