Hungry Ghosts

a book

Hungry Ghosts

Jasper Becker · 1996 · 368 pages

Combining years of interviews, extensive research, and painstaking detective work, a journalist exposes the horrible result of Mao Zedong's attempted utopian engineering in China between 1958 and 1962, uncovering a bloody trail of terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder. 12,500 first printing.

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