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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774817275
• ISBN13: 9780774817271
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"