Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962
#475 of 3,809 books · #161 in History
Won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2011).
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.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- ISBN-13
- 9780802779281
- Genre
- Topics
- Great Chinese FamineMao Zedong eraGreat Leap Forward
Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWonMajor(2011)
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