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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。 \. ?/ r. q5 d3 O3 Y% \3 ~ 5 Q; s' O6 c9 mMao's Great Famine wins Samuel Johnson Prize" U$ B4 J1 _' b' S+ |7 q ?
" o& V; q) n' BA book about China's disastrous Great Leap Forward policy has won the £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.& A3 D& I$ |. B, C& c
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Mao's Great Famine, by Dutch historian Frank Dikotter, beat five other short-listed titles to the award., [$ ~7 h% ^$ `: Z N+ O7 `
; J) Y* i, P6 ]3 v* ?Chair of the judges Ben Macintyre praised the book as an "epic record of human folly". % s, c9 F: ^; S7 {- p 8 l; ^2 T# g9 x/ ]He added it was "essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the history of the 20th Century". - X3 \' w* P6 d8 L; i, X- h, V, p+ R3 S! B8 o' [
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.. M: T+ o9 Z" g4 h9 X/ o: O
) P4 E2 f. V6 _# mThe 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.1 q* }1 O% P" Q
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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. 3 H7 ^7 l ]* A) N' s: [. k * C$ ?! h: B1 _1 EThey each received £1,000. 3 M0 r+ z' U; o9 n& e7 q+ ~( _' A b$ T I* Y, k5 \ v
The 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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