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Eating bitterness : new perspectives on China's great leap forward and famine /

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 men and women in rural and urban settings,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wemheuer, Felix, Manning, Kimberley Ens, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011.
Series:Contemporary Chinese studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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