Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine by Kimberley Ens Manning, Felix Wemheuer

Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine

Kimberley Ens Manning, Felix Wemheuer

336 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that “not even one person shall die of hunger.” Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how...

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