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During the "Boluan Fanzheng" period in June 1981, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially changed the name to "Three Years of Difficulty", and stated that the famine was mainly due to the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward as well as the Anti-Right Deviation Struggle, in addition to some natural disasters and the Sino-Soviet split.
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62, is a 2010 book by professor and historian Frank Dikötter about the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1962 in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1893–1976). It was based on four years of research in recently opened Chinese provincial, county, and ...
Although intended to increase China's economic output, the Great Leap Forward was instead a period of economic regression. The policies enacted during the campaign, coupled with the use of coercion and violence, resulted in the Great Chinese Famine and led to the deaths of 36 - 45 million. 36 to 45 million [12] 1958–1962: Four Pests Campaign
Continuing Great Leap Forward; Continuing Great Chinese Famine; April - First plenary session of the 2nd National People's Congress, Liu Shaoqi was elected the President of China. March 10 - Start of the 1959 Tibetan uprising; July 2 - Start of the Lushan Conference; October 1 - 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine is a book about the Great Chinese Famine by British author Jasper Becker, the former Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Becker interviewed peasants in Henan Province and Anhui Province , both of which were significantly affected by the famine. [ 3 ]
China: A New History. 2nd ed. Harvard U. Press, (2006). 640 pp. excerpt pp 343–471. Fenby, Jonathan. The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power 1850 to the Present (3rd ed. 2019) popular history. Garver, John W. China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic (2nd ed. 2018) Guillermaz ...
Victims of a famine forced to sell their children from The Famine in China (1878) Global famines history. This is a List of famines in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were no fewer than 1,828 recorded famines in China, or once nearly every year in one province or another. The famines ...
This led to the Great Chinese Famine in 1959 - one of the most deadly famines in history. According to research led by Yang Jisheng, an estimated 36 million people died of starvation during the famine period, while other western researchers approximate the casualties to be as high as 45 million. [3]