Book of Donmon Teith

A powerful account of China’s Great Famine as told through the voices of those who survived it

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the Pe

Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, this volume contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate

In 1958, China’s revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a program designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward,

Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Po