Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dikötter

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962



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Recent works—most notably Frank Dikkoter's Mao's Great Famine; the History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe and Jung Chan's and Jon Halliday's Mao: The Unknown Story —have convincingly portrayed Mao as an unfeeling and, Dikkoter says Mao was responsible for as many as 45 million deaths in his misguided Great Leap Forward, the state-run economic revolution of 1958–1962 that led to mass starvation and much deliberate, brutal murder besides. Kondapalli reviews Frank Dikötter's "Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962". Frank Dikotter, "Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0802779239, 0802777686 | EPUB, MOBI | 336 pages | 3 MB. Posted on May 27, 2012 by guest · Download. China's catastrophe Frank Dikötter's Mao's Great Famine. Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962. €�Coercion, terror and systematic violence were the foundation of the Great Leap Forward.” —Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962. The history of China's most devastating catastrophe won the Samuel Johnson Prize, one of the UK's most prestigious prizes for non-fiction. Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dikötter. Review of “Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958 – 1962,” by Frank Dikotter. This book is the classic single-volume history for anyone seeking to understand the present and future of this immensely powerful nation. ȿ�次读书会的书目是冯客(Frank Dikötter)的Mao's Great Famine,出版于2010年,被西方学界和大众书评界大为激赏,尤为麦克法夸尔(Roderick MacFarquhar,《剑桥中华人民共和国史》1966-1982编撰者)看中。 冯客在著作中提出,1959-1962年饥荒 期间,中国非正常死亡人数为4500万人,与书名”Mao's . From 2006 to 2010 I worked on a project of key importance to the history of the twentieth century, namely the Great Famine in China under Mao Zedong. Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 | Books. In the coldest decade, the 1640s, Ming China, the most populous state in the world, collapsed; the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the largest state in Europe, disintegrated; much of the Spanish monarchy seceded; and the entire Stuart So while we argue over whether or not our climate is changing, and (if so) who is to blame, let us also anticipate—and try to mitigate—the sort of catastrophes that history shows are inevitable. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. By tdaxp on March 5, 2011 at 5:16 pm and modified on November 5, 2012. The American Historical Review 2012 117: 1564-1565.

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