Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikötter

Published 2010 · 448 pages · 123,200 words · about 8 hours at an average pace

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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 scores 45 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Where the story of Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 takes place

  • China, 1958–1962 (1958 to 1962), the main setting

About the author

Frank Dikötter