The coming of the cataclysm, 1961-1966
By: Roderick MacFarquhar.
Contributors: Royal Institute of International Affairs.; Columbia University. East Asian Institute.
Series: The origins of the Cultural Revolution ;; 3; Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Studies of the East Asian Institute.
Publisher: Published for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Studies of the East Asian Institute by Oxford University Press and Columbia University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 733
Subjects: China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976; China -- History -- 1949-1976; China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
Description: This volume begins with the great famine of the early 1960s which resulted in tens of millions of deaths, setting in train a series of emergency measures which increasingly divided Mao from his comrades-in-arms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [657]-699) and index.