【新唐人2011年6月17日讯】英国《塞缪尔.约翰逊》大奖评委14号宣布了六本英文书籍，入围参选名单，由英国历史教授所着的《毛时代的大饥荒》也入选。这本被认为“怵目惊心、前所未见”的著作被列在评委书单的前列。毛泽东虽然死了30多年了，讨论毛时代的罪行在大陆仍是禁区。不过，学者茅于轼继《把毛泽东还原成人》之后，再发表《对毛泽东的再认识》文章，请看报导。
在香港大学担任客座教授的迪克特（Frank Dikotter），去年出版一本英文书籍《毛时代的大饥荒》，书中叙述1958-1962年的中国历史。
迪克特教授去年接受美国《大纪元时报》采访时表示，他是在中国开始对部分三十年以上的档案解密时，才开始调查这段历史真相。
他查访了广东、甘肃、山东、北京等数十个县市的档案局。
迪克特教授在这些史料中发现，大饥荒开始后，粮食要全部上缴，而很多在饥荒中死去的人并不是饿死，而是被禁止给食物，如一些生病、老弱或是反对者，甚至被视为右派的份子。
他还表示，史料中的很多酷刑是为了执行党的政策，需要更多暴力迫使饥饿的农民劳动。通过来自中国的公安部、统计局和地方报告的资料，他估计这个时代，中国至少有4千5百万人死于非命，其中6-8%是死于暴力。
虽然毛泽东死了30多年了，在中国，讨论毛时代的罪行仍是禁区。如著名学者茅于轼发表《把毛泽东还原成人》之后，就受到左派网站“乌有之乡”的控诉。“乌有之乡”号称全中国有29个省市5万人在网站上签名公诉茅于轼。
不知迪克特教授的这本《毛时代的大饥荒》著作，能否引起中共左派的愤怒？
贵州网友“未命名野火”：“毛泽东本人对中国犯下的罪行是罄竹难书的。在每一个层面，每一个人群当中，从来没有人说目前这个政治状况非常好，也没有任何人对共产党现在有赞扬的声音。总之，都是反对，和非常不满的情绪在产生。”
政论家伍凡认为，现在中国共产党还在用毛泽东的思想统治中国，中国社会的二元化，对农民的剥削，对知识份子的迫害，就是毛泽东的思想。
伍凡指出：“只有彻底的批评了毛泽东，批判了共产党，中国老百姓的思想才能解放。”
伍凡：“如果他不得到彻底的批判，不在中国的思想界、社会彻底的批评，共产党不会倒台。要彻底批判，扫地出门，扫到垃圾堆里去，这样中国才能前进。”
6月15号，茅于轼再批毛泽东，他在网易的博客上发表《对毛泽东的再认识》文章。茅于轼写道，中国大约五千万人死于毛泽东的错误，“毛从大救星变成了大灾星”。但是，“他到死也没有丝毫自责之心。这就突破了人类道德的底线。”
新唐人记者戴静、宋风、王明宇综合报导。
“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
