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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.
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
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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
E-book ISBN: 978-0-8027-7928-1
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