| #976359 in Books | Holt Paperbacks | 1998-04-15 | 1998-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 228.60 x23.39 x6.00l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | Great product!||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Ignorance is Bliss|By John H Funk|Here is a story never taught in school, and certainly unknown to the general public. Who knew that while I and my friends were leaning to drive, eating pizza and cheese steaks, watching American Bandstand, going to school, complaining about what we wanted and didn't have - - millions were suffering beyond anything we could imagine? Starving,|.com |This first authoritative expose of the 1958-1962 famine prompted by China's collectivization plan, "The Great Leap Forward," comes at a time when the cult of Mao is alive and well inside China, and while agents of Chinese influence are able to arrange aud
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage brought on not by flood, drought, or infestation, but by the insanely irresponsible dictates of Chairman Mao Ze-dong's "Great Leap Forward," an attempt at utopian engineering gone horribly wrong.
Journalist Jasper Becker conducted hundreds of interviews and spent years immersed in painstaking detective w...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (Holt Paperback) | Jasper Becker. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
