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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。 8 w2 Y+ G6 ^1 W1 u& U- Q: F% u6 O0 j5 u) K m
Mao's Great Famine wins Samuel Johnson Prize# W+ B) x4 \( ~, J; ~2 T/ Q
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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. : m3 l& D* J" \( k5 a9 V& Z5 n9 P' J. r2 j1 T" ~$ m* |; M
Mao's Great Famine, by Dutch historian Frank Dikotter, beat five other short-listed titles to the award. 7 f* `- J9 s1 k( P 6 J c' @$ H) N% M% pChair of the judges Ben Macintyre praised the book as an "epic record of human folly".; u+ a$ u( t/ K8 l+ I: Q' ~
) j, u$ X- f3 w6 g6 T$ t3 a, q( ?He added it was "essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the history of the 20th Century".) A1 J9 @; i9 d8 K7 L
* p5 q) M# F2 l& `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.5 D8 Z# `9 T ?- R9 ]8 H& K. L
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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., S7 q- ]& }2 J q' e' F# L
& n: a* ?; d9 `9 ]5 T0 v3 G! aThis 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.. P. x2 P2 r9 C# d! [7 {% V
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They each received £1,000.0 c$ J% k! t2 u3 E3 H, V
. ?% ]- T, y- [" sThe 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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