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Mao's Great Famine (hardback, 2010) by Frank Dikotter. First edition signed

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Condition
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Seller Notes
“Scuff marks to cover. Creasing to dust jacket edges. Tiny tear to dust jacket at top of spine.”
Signed
Yes
Narrative Type
Non-Fiction
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780747595083

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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 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. Access to Communist Party archives has long been denied to all but the most loyal historians, but now a new law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era. Frank Dikotter's astonishing, riveting and magnificently detailed book chronicles an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented. Dikotter shows that instead of lifting the country among the world's superpowers and proving the power of communism, as Mao imagined, in reality the Great Leap Forward was a giant - and disastrous - step in the opposite direction. He demonstrates, as nobody has before, that under this initiative the country 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 the greatest demolition of real estate - and catastrophe for the natural environment - in human history, as up to a third of all housing was turned to rubble and the land savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. Piecing together both the vicious machinations in the corridors of power and the everyday experiences of ordinary people, Dikotter at last gives voice to the dead and disenfranchised. Exhaustively researched and brilliantly written, this magisterial, groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9780747595083
eBay Product ID (ePID)
93346445

Product Key Features

Publication Year
2010
Topic
History
Book Title
Mao's Great Famine: the History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Type
Textbook
Author
Frank Dikoetter
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
234 mm
Item Width
153 mm

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Title_Author
Frank Dikoetter
Topic Area
Economic Sociology

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