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The great famine in China, 1958-1962 : a documentary history / edited by Zhou Xun.

Date
[2012], ©2012
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Publication/Creation

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2012], ©2012.

Physical description

xvii, 204 pages : map ; 24 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Map of China in 1959 -- Famine in the communes (March-September 1958) -- Terror, repression, and violence (1958-1961) -- Seasons of death (1959-1962) -- Cannibalism (Late 1959-early 1961) -- Devastation in the countryside (1958-1961) -- The turn to religion (1957-1962) -- Strategies for survival (1959-1962) -- Letters of complaint (1957-1962) -- Epilogue (1961-1962) -- Organizational structure of the government of the People's Republic of China.

Languages

  • English

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    DFXV.251.AA9
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ISBN

  • 9780300175189
  • 0300175183