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Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe by Frank Dikötter

A Culture Show special on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011, presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Features interviews with the six shortlisted authors and reports from the ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects where the judges revealed the winner of the 20,000 pound prize. Dikötter uses newly released documents to recast the shocking history of the People’s Republic of China and the catastrophic Great Leap Forward.

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