【新唐人2011年6月17日訊】英國《塞繆爾.約翰遜》大獎評委14號宣佈了六本英文書籍，入圍參選名單，由英國歷史教授所著的《毛時代的大饑荒》也入選。這本被認為“怵目驚心、前所未見”的著作被列在評委書單的前列。毛澤東雖然死了30多年了，討論毛時代的罪行在大陸仍是禁區。不過，學者茅于軾繼《把毛澤東還原成人》之後，再發表《對毛澤東的再認識》文章，請看報導。
在香港大學擔任客座教授的迪克特（Frank Dikotter），去年出版一本英文書籍《毛時代的大饑荒》，書中敘述1958-1962年的中國歷史。
迪克特教授去年接受美國《大紀元時報》採訪時表示，他是在中國開始對部分三十年以上的檔案解密時，才開始調查這段歷史真相。
他查訪了廣東、甘肅、山東、北京等數十個縣市的檔案局。
迪克特教授在這些史料中發現，大饑荒開始後，糧食要全部上繳，而很多在饑荒中死去的人並不是餓死，而是被禁止給食物，如一些生病、老弱或是反對者，甚至被視為右派的份子。
他還表示，史料中的很多酷刑是為了執行黨的政策，需要更多暴力迫使飢餓的農民勞動。通過來自中國的公安部、統計局和地方報告的資料，他估計這個時代，中國至少有4千5百萬人死於非命，其中6-8%是死於暴力。
雖然毛澤東死了30多年了，在中國，討論毛時代的罪行仍是禁區。如著名學者茅于軾發表《把毛澤東還原成人》之後，就受到左派網站“烏有之鄉”的控訴。“烏有之鄉”號稱全中國有29個省市5萬人在網站上簽名公訴茅于軾。
不知迪克特教授的這本《毛時代的大饑荒》著作，能否引起中共左派的憤怒？
貴州網友“未命名野火”：“毛澤東本人對中國犯下的罪行是罄竹難書的。在每一個層面，每一個人群當中，從來沒有人說目前這個政治狀況非常好，也沒有任何人對共產黨現在有讚揚的聲音。總之，都是反對，和非常不滿的情緒在產生。”
政論家伍凡認為，現在中國共產黨還在用毛澤東的思想統治中國，中國社會的二元化，對農民的剝削，對知識份子的迫害，就是毛澤東的思想。
伍凡指出：“只有徹底的批評了毛澤東，批判了共產黨，中國老百姓的思想才能解放。”
伍凡：“如果他不得到徹底的批判，不在中國的思想界、社會徹底的批評，共產黨不會倒臺。要徹底批判，掃地出門，掃到垃圾堆裡去，這樣中國才能前進。”
6月15號，茅于軾再批毛澤東，他在網易的博客上發表《對毛澤東的再認識》文章。茅于軾寫道，中國大約五千萬人死於毛澤東的錯誤，「毛從大救星變成了大災星」。但是，「他到死也沒有絲毫自責之心。這就突破了人類道德的底線。」
新唐人記者戴靜、宋風、王明宇綜合報導。
“Mao’s Great Famine” – A Finalist
UK’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction listed
its 6 finalists on June 14. “Mao’s Great Famine,”
written by British history professor Frank Dikotter,
is described as shocking and eye-opening.
It has been 30 years since Mao Zedong’s death,
but talks of Mao’s crimes are still banned in China.
Mao Yushi published “Review of Mao Zedong’
after his previous ‘Unveil Mao Zedong’s True Face”.
Visiting professor at Hong Kong University, in 2010
Frank Dikotter published “Mao’s Great Famine”.
It narrates the Chinese history from 1958 to 1962.
Dr. Dikotter told Epoch Times in a 2010 interview,
that he started researching the history of this period
after 30-year old archives were declassified.
He investigated archive bureaus in dozens of regions
such as Guangdong, Gansu, Shandong and Beijing.
The scholar found that during the Great Famine
in the 60s, all harvests were handed in to the regime.
Some people were starved to death on purpose,
including patients, elderly and political dissidents.
They were disallowed to receive food.
He also found most of the recorded cruel tortures
to have taken place while executing the policies
of the still ruling CCP (Chinese Communist Party).
From official data, he reported at least 45 million
were killed at that time, 6-8% were killed violently.
30 years after Mao Zedong’s death,
discussing Mao’s sins is still under restriction.
Mao Yushi was accused by leftists’ website Utopia
for his attempt to “Unveil Mao’s True Face.”
Utopia is said to have 50,000 signatory accusers.
It is to be seen if CCP’s leftists will be ignited again,
by Frank Dikotter’s “Mao’s Great Famine”.
Guizhou netizen nicknamed “Unknown Fire” wrote:
“Mao Zedong’s sins were too many to be itemized.
None of the social classes or any group of people
would say CCP is good, and no one would praise it.
Grievances are ubiquitous.”
Analyst Wu Fan thinks CCP still reigns by Maoism,
which results in society polarization and persecution.
He says Chinese citizens can not embrace free minds
unless Maoism gets full denial and CCP is objective.
Wu Fan: “CCP will not fall until Mao Zedong is
totally criticized in both social and academic circles.
Maoism has to be fully swept away from China.”
On June 15, Mao Yushi published on Netease blog
his “Review of Mao Zedong”. In it he wrote
that more than 50 million died due to Mao Zedong.
However, when dying Mao Zedong had no regrets,
a proof of his crossing the human morality baseline.
NTD reporters Dai Jing and Song Feng