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'Mao's Great Famine' wins literary award"Mao's Great Famine" by Frank Dikotter
'Mao's Great Famine' wins literary award
Updated: 7.7.2011
A book chronicling the famine that killed some 45-million Chinese people under the rule of Chairman Mao has been awarded the BBC Samuel Johnson Award for Non-Fiction, one of Britain's most prestigious literary prizes.

"Mao's Great Famine" by Frank Dikotter details the effects of the Great Leap Forward -- Chairman Mao's rush to turn China into an industrial superpower. Accepting the prize, Mr Dikkoter said the victims of the famine were often ignored in China today.
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