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Author : Xun Zhou
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0300175183
Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, this volume contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate of the Chinese peasantry between 1957 and 1962, covering everything from cannibalism and selective killing to mass murder.
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080277928X
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize 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. "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 to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful mesghing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
Author : Yang Jisheng
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0374277931
An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.
Author : Xun Zhou
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0300184042
A powerful account of China’s Great Famine as told through the voices of those who survived it
Author : Xun Zhou
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0300183585
Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China’s Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition to claiming more than 45 million lives, it also led to the destruction of agriculture, industry, trade, and every aspect of human life, leaving large parts of the Chinese countryside scarred forever by human-created environmental disasters. Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, Zhou Xun offers readers, for the first time in English, access to the most vital archival documentation of the famine. For some time to come this documentary history may be the only publication available that contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate of the Chinese peasantry between 1957 and 1962. It covers everything from collectivization and survival strategies, including cannibalism, to selective killing and mass murder.
Author : C J Barker
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1835740685
The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, though her aspirations for advancement are denied, while Vic’s wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over. Their post-war marriage and tumultuous relationship with their son, James, make for a gripping narrative of trauma, conflict and, ultimately, love. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, Hungry Ghosts transports readers into the drama of two pivotal eras in history, exploring the intergenerational impact of war, particularly on the intricate relationships between fathers and sons. Hungry Ghosts is not just a war story; it’s a timeless exploration of family bonds and the indelible scars left by war.
Author : Felix Wemheuer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107123704
This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.
Author : Frank Dikotter
Publisher :
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN : 9781407495750
Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known.
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0747595089
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.
Author : Felix Wemheuer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 030020678X
During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under prerevolutionary regimes. Focusing on famine as a political tool, Wemheuer systematically exposes how conflicts about food among peasants, urban populations, and the socialist state resulted in the starvation death of millions. A major contribution to Chinese and Soviet history, this provocative analysis examines the long-term effects of the great famines on the relationship between the state and its citizens and argues that the lessons governments learned from the catastrophes enabled them to overcome famine in their later decades of rule.