Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famineby Jasper Becker

Symposium on Hong Kong || Hungry Ghosts:

Symposium on Hong Kong || Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famineby Jasper Becker

📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 Taylor and Francis Group 🌐 English ⚖ 129 KB

✍ Becker, Jasper 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 eBookPartnership.com 🌐 English ⚖ 5 MB

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage brought on not by flood, drought, or infestation, but by the insanely irresponsible dictates of Chairman Mao Zedong's 'Great Leap Forward,'

Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine

✍ Becker, Jasper 📂 Fiction 📅 1998 🏛 Macmillan 🌐 English ⚖ 537 KB

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage brought on not by flood, drought, or infestation, but by the insanely irresponsible dictates of Chairman Mao Ze-dong's "Great Leap Forward,"