Dikotter's 2010 masterpiece catalogues the tragedy and the cover-up of the hideous famine caused by the Great Leap Forward-Mao Zedong's disastrous attempt to jumpstart industrialization in China in the late 1950s.
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Macat International Limited Mao's great famine. the history of china's most devestating catastrophe 1958-62, paperback/john wagner givens