Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine - Brossura

Becker, Jasper

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ISBN 10: 0805056688 ISBN 13: 9780805056686

Casa editrice: Griffin, 1998

Riassunto

Exposes the horrible result of Mao's attempted utopian engineering in China between 1958 and 1962, uncovering a bloody trail of terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder

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L'autore:

Jasper Becker is currently Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post. He has also written extensively on Chinese affairs for The Guardian, The Economist, and The Spectator. He lives in Beijing.

Product Description:

Journalist Jasper Becker conducted hundreds of interviews and spent years immersed in detective work to produce this first full account of the dark chapter in Chinese history--Chairman Mao Ze-dong's secret famine of the late 1950s and early 1960s. In this horrific story of state-sponsored terror, cannibalism torture and murder, China's communist leadership boasted of record harvests and actually increased grain exports, while refusing imports and international assistance. 16-page photo insert.

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• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805056688
• ISBN 13: 9780805056686
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400