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''Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62'', is a 2010 book by professor and historian Frank Dikötter about the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1962 in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1893–1976). Based on four years of research in recently opened Chinese provincial, county, and city archives,〔 Dikötter supports an estimate of "at least" 45 million premature deaths in China during the famine years. Dikötter characterizes the Great Famine as "The worst catastrophe in China’s history, and one of the worst anywhere".〔 The book won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2011,〔 and has been described by Andrew J. Nathan, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, as "the most detailed account yet" of the Great Chinese Famine. ==Background== Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on both Mao and the Great Chinese Famine,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Professor Frank Dikötter )〕 and Professor of the Modern History of China from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. The author's research behind the book was funded in the UK by the Wellcome Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Economic and Social Research Council, and in Hong Kong by the Research Grants Council and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frank Dikötter )〕 Dikötter was one of only a few historians granted access to the relevant Chinese archives. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mao's Great Famine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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