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Termination of the Great Leap Forward campaign; considered China's most devastating catastrophe. The Great Chinese Famine ( Chinese: 三年大饥荒; lit. 'three years of great famine') was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
The Great Chinese Famine, as it is known, was deadlier than both combined. It began in late 1958 and lasted until late 1961. The causes and outcomes of the Great Famine are shrouded in mystery and subject to considerable debate.
Nov 10, 2012 · A Grim Chronicle Of China's Great Famine For 10 years, journalist Yang Jinsheng secretly collected official evidence about the terrible famine in China a half-century ago.
Between 1958 and 1962, an estimated thirty-six million Chinese died of starvation in what became history’s worst famine. Normally, such epic tragedies would yield a vast body of historical works, memorials, interviews, memoirs, conferences, and documentaries. Yet this epochal event is largely ignored outside of China and, more appallingly ...
Dec 18, 1999 · Forty years ago China was in the middle of the world's largest famine: between the spring of 1959 and the end of 1961 some 30 million Chinese starved to death and about the same number of births were lost or postponed. The famine had overwhelmingly ideological causes, rating alongside the two world wars as a prime example of what Richard Rhodes ...
- Vaclav Smil
- 1999
Dec 12, 1999 · Forty years ago China was in the middle of the world's largest famine: between the spring of 1959 and the end of 1961 some 30 million Chinese starved to death and about the same number of births were lost or postponed.
January 3, 2000. The Chinese famine of 1959–61 resulted in the deaths of up to 30 million people. In terms of human suffering, there is little doubt that it was the worst famine of modern times. But what caused it?
