We have been discussing a wave of anti-communist charges that have been aimed at the revolutionary Maoist period in China.
In that discussion, we noted that a new book is appearing: Frank Dikötter's 2010 book Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe. It is advertised to be an exposure of Mao's Great Leap Forward (and the food shortages of 1958-62).
This book itself has not yet been extensively dissected and vetted. However there is already an exposure of a falsification concerning the book's cover.
That cover appears on the right. The website "Genocide Studies Media File" has documented that this cover photo is a misrepresentation. (Thanks to BJ for suggesting that we expose this.)
The cover picture depicts a hungry Chinese child begging for food (shown below):
Now we have learned that its obvious source is from a 1946 issue of Life Magazine:
楼主: 老汉
发表于 2014-1-8 20:45:50
