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,
“... There is no doubt that the Great Leap Famine in China more than half a century ago was the worst man-made calamity of modern times. Between early 1958 and the spring of 1961, somewhere between 30 and 45 million people died. The more cautious figure is five million more than the population of Scandinavia, the higher one the current population of Spain ... ”
