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

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xxiii, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm

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Walker & Co.
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Economic policy, Famines, Food supply, China, economic policy, Politique économique, History, Mass casualties, Social conditions, Politics and government, Population, Mao, zedong, 1893-1976, China, history, 1949-, China, social conditions, 1949-, Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976, Famines -- China, Food supply -- China, Mass casualties -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century, HISTORY -- Asia -- China, POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, China -- Economic policy -- 1949-1976, China -- History -- 1949-1976, China -- Social conditions -- 1949-1976, China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976, China
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
951.05/5
Library of Congress
HC430.F3 D55 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
420

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24580215M
ISBN 13
9780802777683
LCCN
2010013141
OCLC/WorldCat
555656528

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