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China Civilization China Economic conditions 20th century China History China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 China Politics and government 20th century China Politics and government 21st century China Population History 20th century China Social conditions 2000- China Social conditions 20th century Food supply China History 20th centuryYang, Jisheng
Summary: An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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Summary: Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years. After a century and a half of foreign invasion, civil war, and revolution, China has once again returned to center stage as a global superpower and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martin's Press 2020