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 | Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (Holt Paperback) (Reprint Edition) by Jasper Becker Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-8050-5668-8 / 0805056688 ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5668-6 / 9780805056686 In the late 1950s and early 1960s, 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," | |