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- catalog abstract "In the tradition of John Hersey's Hiroshima, journalist Jasper Becker's penetrating account of China's four-year famine uncovers the truth behind one of the darkest chapters in history. Hungry Ghosts is the horrific story of the state-sponsored terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder during Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward," an attempt at utopian engineering gone wrong. This is the unforgettable story of the century's greatest human rights disaster, in which more people died than in Stalin's purges and the Holocaust put together. Becker conducted hundreds of interviews and spent years immersed in painstaking detective work to examine the unprecedented madness that plagued China between 1958 and 1962. For the first time since it was so ruthlessly and categorically erased from history, Becker unearths what really happened during these years, and how the famine and terror could have been kept a secret for so long.".
- catalog contributor b10185119.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "In the tradition of John Hersey's Hiroshima, journalist Jasper Becker's penetrating account of China's four-year famine uncovers the truth behind one of the darkest chapters in history. Hungry Ghosts is the horrific story of the state-sponsored terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder during Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward," an attempt at utopian engineering gone wrong. This is the unforgettable story of the century's greatest human rights disaster, in which more people died than in Stalin's purges and the Holocaust put together. Becker conducted hundreds of interviews and spent years immersed in painstaking detective work to examine the unprecedented madness that plagued China between 1958 and 1962. For the first time since it was so ruthlessly and categorically erased from history, Becker unearths what really happened during these years, and how the famine and terror could have been kept a secret for so long.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-338) and index.".
- catalog description "The Year Zero -- 1. China: Land of Famine -- 2. Arise, Ye Prisoners of Starvation -- 3. The Soviet Famine -- 4. The First Collectivization, 1949-1958 -- 5. False Science, False Promises -- 6. Mao Ignores the Famine -- 7. An Overview of the Famine -- 8. Henan: A Catastrophe of Lies -- 9. Anhui: Let's Talk about Fengyang -- 10. The Other Provinces -- 11. The Panchen Lama's Letter -- 12. In the Prison Camps -- 13. The Anatomy of Hunger -- 14. Cannibalism -- 15. Life in the Cities -- 16. Liu Shaoqi Saves the Peasants -- 17. Mao's Failure and His Legacy -- 18. How Many Died? -- 19. How to Record the Annals of a Place? -- 20. The Western Failure.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 352 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Hungry ghosts.".
- catalog identifier "068483457X (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hungry ghosts.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : The Free Press,".
- catalog relation "Hungry ghosts.".
- catalog spatial "China.".
- catalog subject "363.8/0951/09045 20".
- catalog subject "Famines China.".
- catalog subject "Food supply China.".
- catalog subject "HC430.F3 B33 1996".
- catalog subject "Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Year Zero -- 1. China: Land of Famine -- 2. Arise, Ye Prisoners of Starvation -- 3. The Soviet Famine -- 4. The First Collectivization, 1949-1958 -- 5. False Science, False Promises -- 6. Mao Ignores the Famine -- 7. An Overview of the Famine -- 8. Henan: A Catastrophe of Lies -- 9. Anhui: Let's Talk about Fengyang -- 10. The Other Provinces -- 11. The Panchen Lama's Letter -- 12. In the Prison Camps -- 13. The Anatomy of Hunger -- 14. Cannibalism -- 15. Life in the Cities -- 16. Liu Shaoqi Saves the Peasants -- 17. Mao's Failure and His Legacy -- 18. How Many Died? -- 19. How to Record the Annals of a Place? -- 20. The Western Failure.".
- catalog title "Hungry ghosts : Mao's secret famine / Jasper Becker.".
- catalog type "text".