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An edition of Hungry ghosts (1996)

Hungry ghosts

Mao's secret famine

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In the tradition of John Hersey's Hiroshima, journalist Jasper Becker's penetrating account of China's four-year famine uncovers the truth behind one of the darkest chapters in history. Hungry Ghosts is the horrific story of the state-sponsored terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder during Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward," an attempt at utopian engineering gone wrong.

This is the unforgettable story of the century's greatest human rights disaster, in which more people died than in Stalin's purges and the Holocaust put together.

Becker conducted hundreds of interviews and spent years immersed in painstaking detective work to examine the unprecedented madness that plagued China between 1958 and 1962. For the first time since it was so ruthlessly and categorically erased from history, Becker unearths what really happened during these years, and how the famine and terror could have been kept a secret for so long.

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Publisher
The Free Press
Language
English
Pages
352

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Subjects

Famines, Food supply, Economic policy, Politics and government, Mao, zedong, 1893-1976, China, history, New York Times reviewed, History, Histoire, 15.75 history of Asia, Geschichte, Hungersnot, Wirtschaftspolitik, Hongersnood, Collectivisatie, FOOD SHORTAGE, HUNGER, CHINA

People

Mao Zedong (1893-1976)

Places

China

Times

1949-1976
Edition Availability
Cover of: Hungry ghosts
Hungry ghosts: Mao's secret famine
1998, Henry Holt
in English - 1st Owl Books ed.
Cover of: Hungry ghosts
Hungry ghosts: China's secret famine
1996, John Murray
in English
Cover of: Hungry Ghosts
Hungry Ghosts: China's Secret Famine
June 13, 1996, John Murray General Publishing Division
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Cover of: Hungry ghosts
Hungry ghosts: Mao's secret famine
1996, The Free Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-338) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363.8/0951/09045
Library of Congress
HC430.F3 B33 1996, HC430.F3B33 1996, HC430.F3 B33 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 352 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
352

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OL994255M
Internet Archive
hungryghostsmaos00beck
ISBN 10
068483457X
LCCN
96032803
OCLC/WorldCat
35103532, 243695119
Library Thing
169463
Goodreads
1180691

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