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

Call Number

  • 951 D5759 (CEN)

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Edition

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information

New York : Walker & Co., 2010.

Physical Description

xxi, 420 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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.

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