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	Mao\`S Great Famine: The History Of China\`S Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958???62 by Frank Dik??Tter
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"Revolution is not a dinner party.\"--Mao Zedong

\"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 Dik??tter\`s astonishing, 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.\" Dik??tter 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 not only \"one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,\" but \"the greatest demolition of real estate in human history,\" (between 30% and 40% of all housing was turned into rubble), and a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. Dik??tter\`s extraordinary research in Chinese archives 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.
ISBN - 9781408810033

Pages : 448

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Mao\`S Great Famine: The History Of China\`S Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958???62

by Frank Dik??Tter