| #999044 in Books | 1997-02-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.18 x6.50 x9.57l, | File type: PDF | 368 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Unbelievable|By Grandma Barbara|I will say that this is not an easy book to read, it is fascinating but has a lot of very dry political rhetoric. The story is horrifying and unbelievable, especially when looked at in the time frame involved. This was a time when most of the world was advancing and moving into the future and yet you see China rolling back to the middle ages. Thi|.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 tradition of John Hersey's "Hiroshima," journalist Jasper Becker's penetrating account of China's four-year famine uncovers the truth behind one of the darkest chapters in history. "Hungry Ghosts" is the horrific story of the state-sponsored terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder during Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward, " an attempt at utopian engineering gone wrong. This is the unforgettable story of the century's greatest human rights disaster, in which more p...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Hungry Ghosts | Jasper Becker. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
