5 k" }# o7 f: c2 m( I4 f3 \8 X8 H7 p/ U9 K/ `: i% F) C5 K 2 q/ W3 b; v7 R9 B1 J# O冯克是为数不多获准使用中国历史档案的外国学者之一。$ k1 G6 Q1 E- ~: l8 W6 Q
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) i: j/ Y5 c8 H) eA book about China's disastrous Great Leap Forward policy has won the £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.* A n+ X; G8 r) b1 j9 p% F8 ]$ I
) Q8 J8 H7 h7 |+ e- b$ H$ EMao's Great Famine, by Dutch historian Frank Dikotter, beat five other short-listed titles to the award., x4 B$ [ u! ~# M
" i5 Q) N* Y% U: V+ O( IChair of the judges Ben Macintyre praised the book as an "epic record of human folly". + o8 C6 Y* m7 x* {" V/ L8 X ) I' w8 p0 |1 sHe added it was "essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the history of the 20th Century". & E( ~% ^) _0 o, j! f ( J0 ^1 r R2 G. t" r" WMao'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 N# K c5 D3 M2 ^ ~$ a1 Q: X$ ~. [ $ ?( z, S- s0 R8 Y% A+ r0 KThe 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." W; P* Y( D8 |- Y
2 y' b1 {6 P! @6 N' A0 M* d) SThis 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. 2 p$ J! n' R& {, y, |3 j4 h: ]7 _; w# Q- U- U: C" U
They each received £1,000. 8 J4 P: U% u V# y * a8 f# @3 T* {8 a E9 vThe prize was open to non-fiction books published in English by writers of any nationality between 1 May 2010 and 30 April 2011.
