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

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Bibliographic Details
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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Table of 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.