Jasper Becker

Systematic genocide

You don’t have to accept the definition of how to do things, and you don’t have to follow other people’s choices and paths, OK? It is about your choices and your path.

  • Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962

    Frank Dikötter

    Bloomsbury, pp. 448

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