Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
- ISBN-10
- 0805056688
- ISBN-13
- 9780805056686
- Series
- Hungry Ghosts
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 380
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-04-15
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Jasper Becker
Description
Exposes the horrible result of Mao's attempted utopian engineering in China between 1958 and 1962, uncovering a bloody trail of terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder
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