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<p>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. <br><br>Journalist Jasper Becker conducted hundreds of interviews and spent years immersed in painstaking detective work to produce Hungry Gh
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- Author
- Becker, Jasper
- Publisher
- Holt Paperbacks
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780805056686
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, Economics, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (369 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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