' n# U9 n5 x9 F0 p9 w; U冯克现任香港大学教授，是不多的几个获准可以利用中国官方历史档案的学者之一。* C' d7 S2 L: h( \7 V& y! f7 B
2 j. ?) d# i( s塞缪尔·约翰逊奖是一个面对世界各国学者的非小说类英文作品的文学奖项，奖金为两万英镑。3 N% D( a* X/ ~2 n6 |+ A: C$ N
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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。 ) p- [7 u% `+ e! n1 L 7 W+ H0 x' E; H4 o1 C, v( GMao's Great Famine wins Samuel Johnson Prize " _/ r( O% V. I8 a8 L . D$ S- `# Z- i: y6 UA book about China's disastrous Great Leap Forward policy has won the £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. 9 I2 o8 Z1 `8 m0 R! _ 7 x" ]! n! D8 g8 }Mao's Great Famine, by Dutch historian Frank Dikotter, beat five other short-listed titles to the award.* p6 c' o3 r; t2 O! x4 t7 o
! M- K& c% C3 u7 f% r7 s# [Chair of the judges Ben Macintyre praised the book as an "epic record of human folly". . \, B5 d4 \9 C) h 3 _" m8 U& \4 E; eHe added it was "essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the history of the 20th Century". 4 U. Z+ F9 S. Q( z* ?- u7 [$ I / e. c% P. W& z# fMao'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.+ x7 Q8 ?* n1 l4 w, [7 q
; f( Z. H6 P" P+ L0 H" Q5 }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.6 X2 Q7 s r1 g
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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. 4 y0 [1 m# O, H6 [4 l) I& u % Y* Y% E& } R0 m, q3 U! K1 M* j4 HThey each received £1,000.( I. H0 o9 y- C/ _
A5 \7 S% u2 s& s2 }) K. iThe 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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