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这本名为《毛的大饥荒Mao's Great Famine》一书的作者是荷兰历史学家冯克（Frank Dikotter），他是在战胜了其他五名候选人后获奖的。9 z2 @ r {5 p3 G* |
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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。 " F4 l( z! m5 B6 d7 Z# O, ]* P3 A5 A9 b8 B0 H, u
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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.4 _- K$ }; X& F- Y7 r4 {: N
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Mao's Great Famine, by Dutch historian Frank Dikotter, beat five other short-listed titles to the award.& e2 `5 h& _/ r) _' X
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Chair of the judges Ben Macintyre praised the book as an "epic record of human folly". : g; y3 O j& {0 c+ e% |& n+ _" s" i6 K$ J5 d
He added it was "essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the history of the 20th Century". ; [8 C4 |1 l1 M( n8 }2 B. I 3 l; b u1 o. e0 u: M! kMao'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. 3 i7 l; O2 y ^$ s/ f: z0 J- y: w+ w7 h T+ Z, q6 d1 E& b O
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. # d% W9 z# d. g& @5 q 0 c/ C, A( ^* _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. ( M5 X( E" r$ j; f) X$ z6 H, b8 W- K j! |' R. }; K
They each received £1,000. 6 I5 U7 s* g8 K( @7 @$ V1 w" R: p& S2 B7 q. {
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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