Hungry Ghosts
China's Secret Famine
Jasper Becker(Author)
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Published on 31. December 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-7195-5440-7 (ISBN)
Description
In 1984 American demographers calculated that at least 30 million people had starved to death in China between 1958 and 1962. This text aims to unravel the story behind these statistics and to describe how Mao Zedong created a man-made famine.;Mao's Great Leap Forward was the greatest example of Utopian engineering ever attempted. He tried to abolish money and property, and create the first Communist paradise on Earth. Instead, even in the richest regions, peasants died in their millions while the rest became gaunt skeletons. Through graphic eyewitness accounts, the author describes a catalogue of terror, cannibalism, slavery, torture and imprisonment.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
16pp b&w photographs, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 27 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 234 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7195-5440-7 (9780719554407)
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06/1996
John Murray Publishers Ltd
€44.79
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