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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。 0 T9 a) R' I0 Y% |0 Z. r 2 W. R5 \( L+ Q) {! _* s2 pMao's Great Famine wins Samuel Johnson Prize & J7 m L1 \2 Y 7 s- X' @. J) J/ x8 RA book about China's disastrous Great Leap Forward policy has won the £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.2 r( w9 \ z* b9 [. c( Q2 U. ^0 l
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Mao's Great Famine, by Dutch historian Frank Dikotter, beat five other short-listed titles to the award.$ F' i& z. `. D1 ~- W, }
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Chair of the judges Ben Macintyre praised the book as an "epic record of human folly".0 p; Y% u# ]& h1 b9 m: O" l! H1 ]
8 _# u: A2 t% z! tHe added it was "essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the history of the 20th Century".8 _6 p F0 s* C- n; Q# \$ K* q' ^
3 K0 h1 U8 m; g* Z0 s( ~, x$ Z+ XMao'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.9 I/ k6 h! P& q8 D9 }! Z# V) t
+ Y3 Z1 g# n9 V( XThe 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. 4 A4 X) A3 D. l Z; e# H* C" ^+ N1 I/ P i4 x, C( Y5 ?8 b
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." i, m8 w" D+ J3 P0 a5 n o/ c
2 |; y4 M2 Y9 aThey each received £1,000. 6 w! P. p1 N, R: ~; h+ T) M$ R6 y1 K* U$ R
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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