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. A very good resource, this guy was actually there during the revolution and the great leap forward felix greene, a curtain of ignorance london. Apr 12, 2018 human cost of maos great famine and cultural revolution exposed in powerful novel. The history of chinas most devastating catastrophe, 19581962.
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