) K4 i4 \: `, _6 a他还说，对于任何要了解20世纪历史的人来说，“这是一本必读之书”。 ; r; K. X5 g/ D ) u9 v S$ n( H0 U. u《毛的大饥荒》一书以新的历史观点分析了导致几千万人饿死的毛泽东的过热工业政策，并披露了有关1958-62年大跃进期间的一些新细节。* j* o6 N' M" ~3 n
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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.& x- l1 G4 [6 C3 }9 e( G/ b
. g. C! A$ i9 u$ BMao's Great Famine, by Dutch historian Frank Dikotter, beat five other short-listed titles to the award. 3 G* j7 Z& Z+ _; l1 H: r# k. |2 N8 D2 D: V0 j: s! F5 M7 }
Chair of the judges Ben Macintyre praised the book as an "epic record of human folly". + w* v# o6 I. [6 } - M0 b7 E( {0 QHe added it was "essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the history of the 20th Century". * o! d+ a1 B" u+ a2 I9 _5 r& }* E% Y5 d- t/ Q
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. . D' a; l) R# G9 i 7 O( i- x. ^2 H1 cThe 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.! V- m1 V0 J. w1 B7 ]# m" b
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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. 8 L; x/ W9 o" S9 d8 j) C9 S7 Y ( f2 c7 {, L6 e8 H8 _They each received £1,000.0 R5 W+ s) V# B0 U* L/ Y
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The prize was open to non-fiction books published in English by writers of any nationality between 1 May 2010 and 30 April 2011.
