Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overta…

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