| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xxi, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-404) and index. |
| Contents |
Two rivals -- The bidding starts -- Purging the ranks -- Bugle call -- Launching sputniks -- Let the shelling begin -- The people's communes -- Steel fever -- Warning signs -- Shopping spree -- Dizzy with success -- The end of truth -- Repression -- The Sino-Soviet rift -- Capitalist grain -- Finding a way out -- Agriculture -- Industry -- Trade -- Housing -- Nature -- Feasting through famine -- Wheeling and dealing -- On the sly -- 'Dear Chairman Mao' -- Robbers and rebels -- Exodus -- Children -- Women -- The elderly -- Accidents -- Disease -- The gulag -- Violence -- Sites of horror -- Cannibalism -- The final tally. |
| Subject |
Famines -- China.
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Food supply -- China.
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China -- Economic policy -- 1949-1976.
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| ISBN |
9780802777683 |
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0802777686 |
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