frank dikotter - mao's great famine: the history of china's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962
"...this book shows that at least 45 million people died unnecessarily between 1958 and 1962."
"when there is not enough to eat people starve to death. it is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill."
"in russian there is a distinction between liudoedstvo, literally 'people eating', and trupoedstvo, or 'corpse eating'. it is a very useful distinction, one which introduces much-needed nuance..."
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