Mao's Great Famine (74 page)

Authors: Frank Dikötter

Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Professor of the Modern History of China on leave from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has pioneered the use of archival sources and published seven books that have changed the way historians view modern China, from the classic
The Discourse of Race in Modern China
(1992) to his last book entitled
China before Mao: The Age of Openness
(2007). Frank Dikötter is married and lives in Hong Kong.

By the Same Author

The Age of Openness: China before Mao

Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China

Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China

Imperfect Conceptions: Eugenics in China

Sex, Culture and Modernity in China

The Discourse of Race in Modern China

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information address Walker & Company, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

Published by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., New York

Every reasonable effort has been made to contact copyright holders of material reproduced in this book, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers would be glad to hear from them and to make good in future editions any errors or omissions brought to their attention.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Dikötter, Frank.

Mao’s great famine : the history of China’s most devastating catastrophe, 1958–1962 / Frank Dikötter.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8027-7768-3 (hardcover)

1. Famines—China. 2. Food supply—China. 3. China—Economic policy—1949–1976. I. Title.

HC430.F3D55 2010

951.05’5—dc22

2010013141

First published by Walker Publishing Company in 2010

This e-book edition published in 2010