Mao's great famine the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Walker & Co.,
2010.
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| 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.
