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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。4 O& H1 V5 K: q( Q+ B+ L3 |
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Mao's Great Famine wins Samuel Johnson Prize / J! ?, e5 c# h& J+ R X1 ~ " \* x! f! j7 F. ?8 BA book about China's disastrous Great Leap Forward policy has won the £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. " o. b# X$ O( L: A. I; n7 H+ T: }+ }$ w+ \6 Q! ~3 M7 M) k
Mao's Great Famine, by Dutch historian Frank Dikotter, beat five other short-listed titles to the award. 0 t/ |/ t) R% |9 V$ N0 f& n5 l) O1 Q; b& _# {: C7 I1 G9 R" ]) Q
Chair of the judges Ben Macintyre praised the book as an "epic record of human folly". # g: S) K) Y7 j' s# O+ u2 D [3 o. ] u* k' T
He added it was "essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the history of the 20th Century".! a5 |- w: j/ Z- ^* F- X
. v. w+ Z( Y5 w2 n1 E# p3 |% 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.4 q8 Y, T1 ]) ^! {0 n" k' A0 \
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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. + a$ T+ @8 p2 p0 {. j8 A 2 S+ O2 m ]: n" k; _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.8 v9 A* g) U$ w( }
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( f3 q4 O4 t" ~7 k. {, j/ }3 lThe 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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