It takes the average reader 1 hour and 38 minutes to read Mao's Great Famine by John Wagner Givens
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The power of Frank Dikötter's ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China's attempted ‘Great Leap Forward’ lies not in the detail of his evidence (though that shows that Mao's fumbled attempt at rapid industrialization probably cost 45 million Chinese lives). It stems from the exceptional reasoning skills that allowed Dikötter to turn years of researching in obscure Chinese archives into a compelling narrative of disaster, and above all to link two subjects that had been treated as distinct by most of his predecessors: the extent of the crisis in the countryside, and the actions...
Mao's Great Famine by John Wagner Givens is 96 pages long, and a total of 24,576 words.
This makes it 32% the length of the average book. It also has 30% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 14 minutes to read Mao's Great Famine aloud.
Mao's Great Famine is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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