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
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN-13
- 9780802779281
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Great Chinese FamineMao Zedong eraGreat Leap Forward
Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWonMajor(2011)
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