John Wagner Givens

An Analysis of Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine

The History of China's Most Devestating Catastrophe 1958-62

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dikà tterâ s 2010 masterpiece catalogues the tragedy and the cover-up of the hideous famine caused by the Great Leap Forwardâ Mao Zedongâ s disastrous attempt to jumpstart industrialization in China in the late 1950s.

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Produktdetails

• The Macat Library
• Verlag: Macat International Limited
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 116g
• ISBN-13: 9781912128044
• ISBN-10: 1912128047
• Artikelnr.: 48848264

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Ways in to the Text Who is Frank Dikotter? What does Mao's Great Famine
Say? Why does Mao's Great Famine Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1:
The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3:
The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5:
Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place
in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module
10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12:
Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited