LONDON (AP) — A book chronicling a Chinese tragedy under Mao has won Britain's richest nonfiction book award, the Samuel Johnson Prize. Frank Dikotter's "Mao's Great Famine" won the 20,000 pound ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Samuel Johnson Prize for ‘Mao’s Great Famine’
Frank Dikötter has won the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction for Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962, published last fall by Bloomsbury Press. The ...
Read a biography about the life of Mao Zedong the Chinese communist leader responsible for the disastrous policies including the 'Great Leap Forward' and the 'Cultural Revolution'.
Between 1958 and 1962, China lived through tragedy on an epic scale. The Great Leap Forward conceived by Mao so that China could drive industrial output ahead of Great Britain and achieve autonomy ...
Discover how the Great Leap Forward aimed to modernize China but resulted in mass famine and economic failure, impacting millions and shaping China's economic future.
MSN: The great Chinese famine and the strategic cost of obedience over truth
The Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1961 stands as the deadliest man-made disaster of the twentieth century. More than a historical tragedy, it offers a grim case study in how ideology, distorted data ...
The great Chinese famine and the strategic cost of obedience over truth
Many people know about the Great Depression, or the Syrian refugee crisis, but not as many people know about the Great Chinese Famine, another tragic event in history. The famine started with Chairman ...
In late 1959, Chinese officials in the provinces began to investigate wild rumors that people were eating one another. Most of the officials must have already known that Mao Zedong’s call for a “Great ...