Analysis of Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine
The power of Frank Dikötter''s ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China''s attempted ‘Great Leap Forward’ lies not in the detail of his evidence (though that shows that Mao''s fumbled attempt at rapid industrialization probably cost 45 million Chinese lives). It stems from the exceptional reasoning skills that allowed Dikötter to turn years of researching in obscure Chinese archive...
The power of Frank Dikötter''s ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China''s attempted ‘Great Leap Forward’ lies not in the detail of his evidence (though that shows that Mao''s fumbled attempt at rapid industrialization probably cost 45 million Chinese lives). It stems from the exceptional reasoning skills that allowed Dikötter to turn years of researching in obscure Chinese archive...
