Tyranny of the Ladle
James C. Scott: Mao’s Great Famine, 6 December 2012
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao’s Great Famine
by Yang Jisheng, translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian.
Allen Lane, 629 pp., £30, November 2012,978 1 84614 518 6 Show More
by Yang Jisheng, translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian.
Allen Lane, 629 pp., £30, November 2012,
Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
by Frank Dikötter.
Bloomsbury, 420 pp., £9.99, May 2011,978 1 4088 1003 3 Show More
by Frank Dikötter.
Bloomsbury, 420 pp., £9.99, May 2011,
The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
by Gail Hershatter.
California, 455 pp., £37.95, August 2011,978 0 520 26770 1 Show More
by Gail Hershatter.
California, 455 pp., £37.95, August 2011,
“... while others managed to limit the death toll. Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikötter and Yang Jisheng’s Tombstone have more ambitious goals. Each aims to understand how the post-liberation party-state created the structures of power and information that made such a massive famine possible. Each describes the stages of the famine as it unfolded ... ”
