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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 ...
Timewatch Chairman Mao: The Last Emperor (1993) China: A Century of Revolution – Part One: China in Revolution 1911-1949 (1989) China Diary (1989) River Elegy (Chinese: 河殇) China Rises; Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor; How Yukong Moved the Mountains(1976), a series of 12 documentary films about the Cultural Revolution
The first installment, China in Revolution, 1911–1949, was broadcast on September 27, 1989. [3] The second installment, The Mao Years, 1949–1976, was broadcast on April 13, 1994. [4] The third installment, Born Under the Red Flag, 1976–1997, was broadcast on July 9, 1997. [5] Williams began production on the documentary in 1985. [3]
Due to the lack of food and incentive to marry at that time, according to China's official statistics, China's population in 1961 was about 658,590,000, some 14,580,000 lower than in 1959. [65] The birth rate decreased from 2.922% (1958) to 2.086% (1960) and the death rate increased from 1.198% (1958) to 2.543% (1960), while the average numbers ...
Rummel, Rudolph J. China's bloody century: Genocide and mass murder since 1900 (Routledge, 2017). Salisbury, Harrison E. The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng (1993) Schoppa, R. Keith. The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History. Columbia U. Press, 2000. 356 pp. Short, Philip (2001). Mao: A Life. Owl Books. ISBN 978-0805066388.
Mao Zedong [a] (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) and led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
HONG KONG — The diaries of a top Chinese official and prominent critic of Beijing are at the center of a U.S. legal battle, raising questions about who will write the history of modern China.
The Four Pests Campaign is representative of many of the overarching themes of Mao's Great Leap Forward. In order to expedite China's industrialization, and to achieve a socialist utopia, Mao sought to utilize China's natural and human resources. In this future utopia, cleanliness and hygiene would be critical. [14]