Zhou Xun is research assistant professor of history at the University of Hong Kong. She lives in Hong Kong and in the United Kingdom.
"Zhou Xun's book sets out detailed primary sources about the great
famine in China. The significance of this important book is that
the author's sources are no longer accessible and, moreover, they
reveal the extent of people's suffering, the complicity of the
authorities and the sterling resistance of the citizenry. Zhou
Xun's detailed, fascinating book means that these voices and the
shocking experiences they describe will never be forgotten."—Gerard
Lemos, author of The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese people
Fear the Future
*Gerard Lemos*
“A frank, grisly, and specific portrait of hysteria deafening
common sense…Zhou’s book stands on its own.”—Library Journal
*Library Journal*
“Astonishing…what happened in China during the Great Leap Forward
has received little attention from the larger world.”—Didi Kirsten
Tatlow, The New York Times
*The New York Times*
“Present[s] a picture of the famine more detailed than any
previously available in English.”—Choice
*Choice*
“A chastening documentary history.”—The Wall Street
Journal
*The Wall Street Journal*
“[This] collection allows English-language readers to confront the
many features of everyday life during the famine.”—The
Nation
*The Nation*
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