… Communist party took power in 1949, promising to serve the people, the greatest manmade
disaster … Half a century on, the government still treats the famine as a natural disaster and … Many
think even this is a conservative figure: in his acclaimed book Mao's Great Famine, Frank …

HONG KONG—The worst catastrophe in China's history, and one of the worst anywhere,
was the Great Famine of 1958 to 1962, and to this day the ruling Communist Party has not
fully acknowledged the degree to which it was a direct result of the forcible herding of …

… supported by the leadership of China's communist party, to launch the Great Leap Forward …
economic advances that took other nations many decades to accomplish.2 Mao, beholden to …
These three attributes recur in all modern manmade famines.5 The greatest omission was …

I was born at the height of the Cultural Revolution, one of the most violent periods in modern
Chinese history. My mother gave birth to me while bullets were flying around outside the
hospital window. At night my family slept under the bed to avoid being shot by machine …

… the author's article, ``Stalinism, famine, and Chinese peasants: grain procurements during the
Great Leap Forward … Other major issues such as the role of Mao's lieutenants or regional variations
are not … statistics indicate that the third phase of the Leap exacted the greatest toll in …

… Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Eating bitterness: new
perspectives on China's great leap forward and famine/ edited by Kimberley Ens l\/lanning
and Felix Wemheuer … 2. Famines—China—History—20th century …

For many elderly peasants living in Central China and Sichuan Province, the famine of the
Great Leap Forward (1958-61) was the most devastating experience in their lifetime. The
greatest famine in Chinese history caused between 15 and 45 million deaths. 1 In recent …

… Imposing the famine as revenge cannot explain China's Great Famine since
the famine death tolls were widespread across the entire country, with Mao's
home province, Hunan, among the most suffered areas …