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Great Leap into Famine

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  • Cormac Ó Gráda

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Frank Dikötter’s Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 is the longest and most detailed study of the Great Leap Forward (GLF) famine to appear in English to date. Much of the story will be already familiar to western readers from works by Roderick McFarquhar (1983), Jasper Becker (1996), Ralph Thaxton (2008), and others, but Dikötter adds a lot that is new and valuable. For the past decade or so Chinese scholars have been publishing works based on public records, including party archives, formerly closed to historians.

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  • Cormac Ó Gráda, 2011. "Great Leap into Famine," Working Papers 201103, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucn:wpaper:201103
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    1. CormacÓ Gráda, 2013. "Great Leap, Great Famine: A Review Essay," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 39(2), pages 333-346, June.
    2. Zhihe Wang & Ming Yang & Jiaming Zhang & Jiang Chang, 2016. "Ending an Era of Population Control in China: Was the One-Child Policy Ever Needed?," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 75(4), pages 929-979, September.
    3. Anatole Romaniuk & Oleksandr Gladun, 2015. "Demographic Trends in Ukraine: Past, Present, and Future," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 41(2), pages 315-337, June.

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    Great Chinese Famine; Causes; Impact;
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