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• ISBN: 9780374277932
• Physical Description: xxvi, 629 pages : maps ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st American edition
• Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar -- Translators' note -- A chronology of the great famine -- An everlasting tombstone -- The epicenter of the disaster -- The three red banners : source of the famine -- Hard times in Gansu -- The people's commune : foundation of the totalitarian system -- The communal kitchens -- Hungry ghosts in heaven's pantry -- The ravages of the five winds -- Anxious in Anhui -- The food crisis -- Turnaround in Lushan -- China's population loss in the great leap forward -- The official response to the crisis -- Social stability during the great famine -- The systemic causes of the great famine -- The great famine's impact on Chinese politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Famines > China > History > 20th century.
Food supply > China > History > 20th century.
China > Economic conditions > 20th century.
China > Politics and government > 20th century.
China > Population > History > 20th century.
China > Social conditions > 20th century.