448 pages
Published April 24, 2010 by Walker And Company.
Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the Western world in less than fifteen years. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known. Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors of power with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. This groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
Historia bastante detallada de las barbaridades genocidas del maoísmo 1958-61: el Gran Salto Adelante y la hambruna subsiguiente. Se hace duro de leer, por lo que cuenta (atrocidades sin límite) y por cómo lo cuenta, es muy reiterativo.
De todas formas, vale la pena el esfuerzo por eso de conocer un poco mejor nuestra historia reciente.
