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Frank Dikotter on Mao's Great Famine
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Length:
73 minutes
Released:
Aug 6, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Historian Frank Dikotter of the University of Hong Kong and author of Mao's Great Famine talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Dikotter chronicles the strategies Mao and Chinese leadership implemented to increase grain and steel production in the late 1950s leading to a collapse in agricultural output and the deaths of millions by starvation.
Released:
Aug 6, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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