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Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikötter

Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

People's Trilogy #1

Frank Dikötter

448 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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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 and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the count...

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