Mao's great famine : the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962
Summary
""Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake Britain in less than fifteen years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of mil... Full description
- 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.