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Yang, Xinhua News Agency senior journalist and author of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962, concluded there were 36 million deaths due to starvation, while another 40 million others failed to be born, so that "China's total population loss during the Great Famine then comes to 76 million."
The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people, [ 16 ] underscoring the high human cost of the ecological mismanagement inherent in the "Four Pests" campaign.
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 ...
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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
Violence in the Great Chinese Famine: 1959–1961 Nationwide 2.5 million [52] [53] Killings occurred during the Great Chinese Famine. [54] [55] According to Frank Dikötter, at least 2.5 million (2–3 million) people were beaten or tortured to death, which accounted for 6–8% of the total deaths in the famine. [53] [55] [56] Socialist ...
Pages in category "1959 in China" ... Great Chinese Famine; Great Leap Forward; J. Typhoon Joan (1959) K. Kongka Pass incident; L. Lushan Conference; S. Second five ...
In the later book, Yang states, "36 million Chinese starved to death in the years between 1958 and 1962, while 40 million others failed to be born, which means that "China's total population loss during the Great Famine then comes to 76 million."