Mao’s Great Famine  32120

The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

  • Preface
  • Chronology
  • Map
  • Part One: The Pursuit of Utopia
    1. Two Rivals
    2. The Bidding Starts
    3. Purging the Ranks
    4. Bugle Call
    5. Launching Sputniks
    6. Let the Shelling Begin
    7. The People’s Communes
    8. Steel Fever
  • Part Two: Through the Valley of Death
    1. Warning Signs
    2. Shopping Spree
    3. Dizzy with Success
    4. The End of Truth
    5. Repression
    6. The Sino-Soviet Rift
    7. Capitalist Grain
    8. Finding a Way Out
  • Part Three: Destruction
    1. Agriculture
    2. Industry
    3. Trade
    4. Housing
    5. Nature
  • Part Four: Survival
    1. Feasting through Famine
    2. Wheeling and Dealing
    3. On the Sly
    4. ‘Dear Chairman Mao’
    5. Robbers and Rebels
    6. Exodus
  • Part Five: The Vulnerable
    1. Children
    2. Women
    3. The Elderly
  • Part Six: Ways of Dying
    1. Accidents
    2. Disease
    3. The Gulag
    4. Violence
    5. Sites of Horror
    6. Cannibalism
    7. The Final Tally
  • Epilogue
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