An Analysis of Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine
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An Analysis of Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine by John Wagner Givens
Dikotters 2010 masterpiece catalogues the tragedy and the cover-up of the hideous famine caused by the Great Leap ForwardMao Zedongs disastrous attempt to jumpstart industrialization in China in the late 1950s.Dr John Wagner Givens holds a DPhil in politics from the University of Oxford. He is currently an Asian Studies Center Associate and Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, having previously held positions as a post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Center for Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville, as Associate Lecturer at the University of the West of England, and as a Visiting Scholar at Nankai University in Tianjin.
Dr Wagner’s research interests span a range of topics including Law, Foreign Policy, and Political Economy, but he specializes in ostensibly liberal institutions in nondemocratic regimes. He is currently working on a book manuscript on lawyers who sue the Chinese state.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912128044 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912128047 |
| Title | An Analysis of Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine |
| Author | John Wagner Givens |
| Series | The Macat Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Macat International Limited |
| Year published | 2017-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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