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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction べいりー・ぎふぉーど・ぷらいず

Edition 13 (2011)

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Frank Dikötter ふらんく・でぃこったー Winner

A historical study that reexamines the Great Chinese Famine of 1958 to 1962 and traces how policy, bureaucracy, and information control produced mass death.

A definitive archival study of Mao-era famine.

420 pages
modern Chinese historyfaminepolitical historyhuman rights