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冯克是为数不多获准使用中国历史档案的外国学者之一。1 \. W% `8 q' }
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Mao's Great Famine wins Samuel Johnson Prize5 O7 J+ v. M8 j) T; T* F
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A book about China's disastrous Great Leap Forward policy has won the £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. $ M- A% x3 O5 ~# N0 F* k: M# U: e- V
Mao's Great Famine, by Dutch historian Frank Dikotter, beat five other short-listed titles to the award.. e" D) `2 Q: z2 \& L9 |* n
- v% V2 o' V3 C' F& v! g5 ?Chair of the judges Ben Macintyre praised the book as an "epic record of human folly".6 |. k9 r0 d$ J- p# S$ X
, p' a+ P& `1 L9 [7 oHe added it was "essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the history of the 20th Century".7 f5 `3 _) o9 O
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Mao's Great Famine reveals new details of the period from 1958-1962, providing fresh historical perspectives on Mao's campaign to increase industrial production during which tens of millions starved to death. 1 X# s& F; h3 {8 k l' T* v- z* z9 g/ d% L" X5 X1 e
The academic - currently chair of professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong - was one of a small number of historians to be given access into the Chinese archives. & S% J1 q5 @! i) D8 x& M3 s% K: i4 l$ Y4 y9 k% x$ o6 [! U
This year's runners-up were Andrew Graham Dixon's Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane, Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles, Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist, Jonathan Steinberg's Bismarck: A Life, and John Stubbs' Reprobates.' k; s/ x2 y, g& c
5 d- |1 W) O3 n4 c. i7 [4 oThey each received £1,000.4 D0 e+ I. j8 b) W3 R& e8 k: g
8 h9 I0 f3 `3 h* q7 v, H) zThe prize was open to non-fiction books published in English by writers of any nationality between 1 May 2010 and 30 April 2011.
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