Dikotter, Frank, <br/><br/>
Mao's great famine :  the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962  
Frank Dikotter. 
 - Paperback edition. 
 - London :  Bloomsbury,  2017. 
 - xxiii, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations, map ;  20 cm  Paperbound book. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: 2010. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-404) and index. 
<br/><br/>Two rivals -- The bidding starts -- Purging the ranks -- Bugle call -- Launching sputniks -- Let the shelling begin -- The people's communes -- Steel fever -- Warning signs -- Shopping spree -- Dizzy with success -- The end of truth -- Repression -- The Sino-Soviet rift -- Capitalist grain -- Finding a way out -- Agriculture -- Industry -- Trade -- Housing -- Nature -- Feasting through famine -- Wheeling and dealing -- On the sly -- 'Dear Chairman Mao' -- Robbers and rebels -- Exodus -- Children -- Women -- The elderly -- Accidents -- Disease -- The gulag -- Violence -- Sites of horror -- Cannibalism -- The final tally. 
<br/><br/> This title provides an unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Leap Forward that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781408886366 1408886367 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>018131973  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999  <br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Famines--China.<br/>Food supply--China.<br/>Mass casualties--Political aspects--History--China--20th century.<br/>History--China.--Asia--Political Ideologies--Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.<br/>Economic policy.<br/>Famines.--China.<br/>Food supply.--China<br/>Politics and government.--China
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--Economic policy--1949-1976.<br/>China--History--1949-1976.<br/>China--Social conditions--1949-1976.<br/>China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label>
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC430.F3  / D55 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>951.055 Dik   15