Forgotten voices of Mao's great famine, 1958-1962 : an oral history /

" In 1958, China's revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a program designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward, Mao's grand scheme-like so many other utopian dreams of the 20th century-proved a monumental disaster, resulting in the mas...

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Main Author: Zhou, Xun, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
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