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170821s2017 enkab b 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781408886366 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
UkOxU |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
UkOxU |
| Modifying agency |
UK-LoPHL |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Provenance |
CU |
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07020818108 |
| Local processing data |
c |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
951.056 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Dikötter, Frank |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
111140 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Mao's great famine : |
| Remainder of title |
the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Frank Dikötter. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
History of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Bloomsbury, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxiii, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations, portraits, map |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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rdacontent |
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still image |
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rdacontent |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
cartographic image |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Source |
rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
| Source |
rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
First published: 2010. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Two rivals -- The bidding starts -- Purging the ranks -- Bugle call -- Launching sputniks -- Let the shelling begin -- The people's communes -- Steel fever -- Warning signs -- Shopping spree -- Dizzy with success -- The end of truth -- Repression -- The Sino-Soviet rift -- Capitalist grain -- Finding a way out -- Agriculture -- Industry -- Trade -- Housing -- Nature -- Feasting through famine -- Wheeling and dealing -- On the sly -- 'Dear Chairman Mao' -- Robbers and rebels -- Exodus -- Children -- Women -- The elderly -- Accidents -- Disease -- The gulag -- Violence -- Sites of horror -- Cannibalism -- The final tally. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. Access to Communist Party archives has long been denied to all but the most loyal historians, but now a new law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era. Frank Dikötter's astonishing, riveting and magnificently detailed book chronicles an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented. Dikötter shows that instead of lifting the country among the world's superpowers and proving the power of communism, as Mao imagined, in reality the Great Leap Forward was a giant - and disastrous - step in the opposite direction. He demonstrates, as nobody has before, that under this initiative the country became the site not only of one of the most deadly mass killings of human history (at least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death) but also the greatest demolition of real estate - and catastrophe for the natural environment - in human history, as up to a third of all housing was turned to rubble and the land savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. Piecing together both the vicious machinations in the corridors of power and the everyday experiences of ordinary people, Dikötter at last gives voice to the dead and disenfranchised.Exhaustively researched and brilliantly written, this magisterial, groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China."--Provided by publisher. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mao, Zedong, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1893-1976. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
86805 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Famines |
| Geographic subdivision |
China |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
31666 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
China |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
1949-1976. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
14004 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
China |
| General subdivision |
Social conditions |
| Chronological subdivision |
1949-1976. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
21343 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
China |
| General subdivision |
Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision |
1949-1976. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
14025 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Suppress in OPAC |
Do not suppress in OPAC |