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

Content descriptions

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