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By michelle rae uy 24 january 2020 knowing how to combine pdf files isnt reserved. Dikotter chronicles the strategies mao and the chinese leadership implemented to increase grain and steel production in the late 1950s leading to a collapse in agricultural output and the deaths of millions by starvation. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Searching for a specific type of document on the internet is sometimes like looking for a needle in a haystack. Frank dikotter is a professor at the university of hong kong, on leave. 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. Frank dikotter discusses his book, mao s great famine. The history of chinas most devastating catastrophe, 195862, is a 2010 book by professor and historian frank dikotter about the great famine of 19581962 in the peoples republic of china under mao zedong 18931976. Mao s great famine is a gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve, that tells the riveting story of the manmade famine that killed 45 million people from the dictator and his henchmen down to the villages of rural china.
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The history of chinas most devastating catastrophe, 195862 by frank dikotter. A peoples history, 19621976 is a followup to maos great famine 2010 and the tragedy of liberation 20. Jan 07, 2019 the question of mao zedongs personal role in triggering massive famine in china during the great leap forward 195861 brings us into an important debate. Maos great leap to famine four winds 10 truth winds. The history of chinas most devastating catastrophe, 19581962 kindle edition by dikotter, frank. Access to these files would have been unimaginable even 10 years. Nov 11, 2016 only six years after the publication of his. My view on this book can be summed up by what han dongping said about it in remembering socialist china, 19491979. The history of chinas most devastating catastrophe, 19581962. Maos great famine comments leading light communist. The history of chinas most devastating catastrophe, 195862.
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Mao zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the great leap forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake britain in less than fifteen years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. Zlibrary is one of the largest online libraries in the world that contains over 6,640,000 books and 80,760,000 articles. The power of frank dikotters groundbreaking work on the disaster that followed chinas attempted great leap forward lies not in the detail of his evidence though that shows that mao s fumbled attempt at rapid industrialization probably cost 45 million chinese lives. The history of chinas most devastating catastrophe 2010, dikotter provided a damning history of the great leap forward of the late 1950s and early 1960s, laying the deaths of fortyfive million people squarely, as his title implies, on the nations leader, communist party chairman mao zedong. Buy mao s great famine 11 edition 9780802779236 by frank dikotter for up to 90% off at. Mao s great famine 19581962 the cultural revolution 19621976 frank dikotter is the author of the peoples trilogy, a series of books that document the impact of communism on the lives of ordinary people in china on the basis of new archival material. An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of chinas great famine that recasts the era of mao zedong and the history of the. Opinion maos great leap to famine the new york times. About maos great famine pdf between 1958 and 1962, china descended into hell.
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