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The Great Famine in China 1958 1962
Author | : Xun Zhou |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300175189 |
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Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, this volume contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate of the Chinese peasantry between 1957 and 1962, covering everything from cannibalism and selective killing to mass murder.
Mao s Great Famine
Author | : Frank Dikötter |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802779281 |
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Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful mesghing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
Forgotten Voices of Mao s Great Famine 1958 1962
Author | : Xun Zhou |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300184044 |
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A powerful account of China’s Great Famine as told through the voices of those who survived it
Tombstone
Author | : Jisheng Yang |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 629 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0241956986 |
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Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimesMore people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in China, Tombstone draws on the author's privileged access to official and unofficial sources to uncover the full human cost of the tragedy, and create an unprecedented work of historical reckoning.'A book of great importance' Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans'The first proper history of China's great famine ... So thorough is his documentation that some are already calling Yang "China's Solzhenitsyn"' Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History
The Great Famine in China 1958 1962
Author | : Xun Zhou |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2012-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300183580 |
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Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China’s Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition to claiming more than 45 million lives, it also led to the destruction of agriculture, industry, trade, and every aspect of human life, leaving large parts of the Chinese countryside scarred forever by human-created environmental disasters. Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, Zhou Xun offers readers, for the first time in English, access to the most vital archival documentation of the famine. For some time to come this documentary history may be the only publication available that contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate of the Chinese peasantry between 1957 and 1962. It covers everything from collectivization and survival strategies, including cannibalism, to selective killing and mass murder.
A Social History of Maoist China
Author | : Felix Wemheuer |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107123700 |
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This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.
Mao s Great Famine
Author | : Frank Dikotter |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1407495755 |
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Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known.
Mao s Great Famine
Author | : Frank Dikötter |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2010-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781408814444 |
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A groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine: winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre 'A critical contribution to Chinese history' Wall Street Journal Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known. Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors of power with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. This groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.