Please recommend a book about The Great Leap Forward

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I am curious about this… event and I want to learn more. There are lots of titles on the Wikipedia entry, but I don’t know where to start. Need something kind of accessible, please. Assume I really don’t know much at all about China. :smiley:

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For an interesting first-hand account of life in China during the run-up to the Great Leap Forward, there’s Escape from Red China by Robert Loh.

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Part of Wild Swans covers this period.

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On China by Henry Kissinger.
Good book. Read this and you will know a lot about China.

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I really enjoyed “Mao’s War Against Nature.”