MAO’S GREAT FAMINE:
The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
by Frank Dikötter
(London: Bloomsbury /
Sydney: Allen & Unwin)
Paperback: 444 pages
ISBN: 9781408812198
RRP: AUD$35.00
Reviewed by Bill James
In 1968, the controversial British politician Enoch Powell made a comment second only in notoriety to his “rivers of blood&rdq…
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