Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962
(2010)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
951.05/DIKOTTER,F

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 951.05/DIKOTTER,F Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Walker & Co., 2010
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION

xxi, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780802777683, 0802777686
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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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