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Forgotten voices of Mao's great famine, 1958-1962 : an oral history
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Forgotten voices of Mao's great famine, 1958-1962 : an oral history / Xun Zhou.
ISBN
9780300199246 (ebook) :
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource : maps (black and white)
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 14, 2014).
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Summary
In 1958, China's leader Mao Zedong instituted a programme designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the 'Great Leap Forward', Mao's grand scheme proved a monumental disaster, resulting in the mass destruction of China's agriculture, industry and trade while leaving large portions of the countryside forever scarred by man-made environmental disasters. The resulting 3-year famine claimed the lives of more than 45 million people in China. In this history of modern China's greatest tragedy, survivors of the cataclysm share their memories of the devastation & loss.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 05, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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