Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 /
Dikötter, Frank.
Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 / Frank Dikötter. - London : Bloomsbury, 2010. - xxi, 420 p., [8] p. of plates : 25 cm.
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.
978-1-4088-1219-8 9780802777683
Famines--China.
Food supply--China.
China--Economic policy
951.056 / DIK/M
Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 / Frank Dikötter. - London : Bloomsbury, 2010. - xxi, 420 p., [8] p. of plates : 25 cm.
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.
978-1-4088-1219-8 9780802777683
Famines--China.
Food supply--China.
China--Economic policy
951.056 / DIK/M