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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). Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962.
- 1959–1961
- People's Republic of China
- 15–55 million
Jan 1, 2013 · China's Great Famine: the true story. The famine that killed up to 45 million people remains a taboo subject in China 50 years on. Author Yang Jisheng is determined to change that with his book ...
- Tania Branigan
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Jun 23, 2017 · From the perspective of research that conceptualises Wikipedia as a memory place (e.g. Pentzold, 2009), one would arguably expect to see major changes to the entries on the famine in Chinese online encyclopaedias if the debates significantly altered Chinese collective memory of the Great Famine. This article, thus, suggests that analysing ...
- Karl Gustafsson
- 2019
Nov 11, 2012 · The memorial is part of the Folk Memory Project, which records the stories of Chinese peasants who lived through the Great Famine a half-century ago. Second of a two-part series. Find the first ...
Jan 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? Simple logic would suggest that famines are caused by a sudden decline in food availability, but the Nobel […]
Reviewed by Clayton D. Brown 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, actively […]
