Tyranny of the Ladle
James C. Scott: Mao’s Great Famine, 6 December 2012
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao’s Great Famine
by Yang Jisheng, translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian.
Allen Lane, 629 pp., £30, November 2012,978 1 84614 518 6 Show More
by Yang Jisheng, translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian.
Allen Lane, 629 pp., £30, November 2012,
Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
by Frank Dikötter.
Bloomsbury, 420 pp., £9.99, May 2011,978 1 4088 1003 3 Show More
by Frank Dikötter.
Bloomsbury, 420 pp., £9.99, May 2011,
The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
by Gail Hershatter.
California, 455 pp., £37.95, August 2011,978 0 520 26770 1 Show More
by Gail Hershatter.
California, 455 pp., £37.95, August 2011,
“... such a disaster? Who was responsible? Ralph Thaxton’s Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China, Gail Hershatter’s The Gender of Memory and Chen Yixin’s essay ‘When Food Became Scarce’ all begin with individual experience.* Thaxton shows in meticulous detail how the crisis fractured the village of Da Fo in Henan Province, the desperate ... ”
