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The Great Chinese Famine ... was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's ... wrote that most estimates of the famine death toll range from 30 ...
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, [7] 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 ...
Great Chinese Famine: China: 1959 –1961 2. 25,000,000 [47] Chinese famine of 1906–1907: Qing China: ... List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll;
Great Chinese Famine of 1958–62 [6] 15–55 million Great Leap Forward economic failure. The starved could not move out because all out-of-town traffic were guarded by militia to contain the news of starvation. [7] Chinese famine of 1876–79. Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan. [8] 9–13 million Drought Chinese famine of 1928–30. Gansu, Shaanxi. [9 ...
Violence in the Great Chinese Famine: 1959–1961 Nationwide 2.5 million [50] [51] Killings occurred during the Great Chinese Famine. [52] [53] 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. [51] [53] [54] Socialist ...
Death toll (where known; estimated) ... 1959–1961: The Great Chinese Famine [151] [152] [153] Some researchers also include the year 1958 or 1962. [154] China :
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 ...