· Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine. Hungry Ghosts.: Jasper Becker. Macmillan, - History - pages. 5 Reviews. In the late s and early s, the Chinese people suffered what may /5(5). · Journalist Jasper Be. In the late s and early s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage brought on not by flood, drought, or infestation, but by the insanely irresponsible dictates of Chairman Mao Ze-dong's "Great Leap Forward," an attempt at utopian engineering gone horribly wrong.4/5. · Buy a cheap copy of Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine book by Jasper Becker. In the late s and early s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage Free Shipping on all orders over $Cited by:
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Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine is a book written by Jasper Becker, the Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post. Becker argues that the American press reported the Great Chinese Famine with accuracy, but leftists and communist sympathisers such as Edgar Snow, Rewi Alley, and Anna Louise Strong, remained silent or played down its severity, when Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward had turned into a horrible tragedy. Journalist Jasper Becker conducted hundreds of interviews and spent years immersed in painstaking detective work to produce Hungry Ghosts, the first full account of this dark chapter in Chinese history. In this horrific story of state-sponsored terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder. Hungry Ghosts Mao’s Secret Famine JASPER BECKER Copyright © , by Jasper Becker All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in.
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