Heroes of China's Great Leap Forward. Two Stories.
Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press. 2010. Stock ID #131696 "Heroes of China’s Great Leap Forward presents contrasting narratives of the most ambitious and disastrous mass movement in modern Chinese history. The objective of the Great Leap, when it was launched in the late 1950s, was to catapult China into the ranks of the great military and industrial powers with no assistance from the outside world; it resulted in a famine that killed tens of millions of the nation’s peasants." (Publisher's description). When referring to this item please quote stockid 131696.
132 pages, glossary, paperback.
Price: $23.95 AU
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