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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."
Northern Chinese Famine of 1901 1901 Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia The drought from 1898-1901 led to a fear of famine, which was a leading cause of Boxer Rebellion. The famine eventually came in Spring 1901. [11] 0.2 million in Shanxi, the worst hit province. Chinese famine of 1906–1907: 1906-07 northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu 20 to 25 ...
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 ...
Northern Chinese Famine in Spring 1901, caused by drought from 1898-1901. The famine was one of the causes of the anti-imperialist Boxer rebellion. [109] China (Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces) and Inner Mongolia: 200,000 in Shaanxi province. 1904–1906: Famine in Spain [110] [111] [112] Spain: 1906–1907: Chinese famine of 1906–1907: China
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 ...
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, [ 17 ] underscoring the high human cost of the ecological mismanagement inherent in the "Four Pests" campaign.
The largest famine of the 20th century was the 1958–1961 famine associated with the Great Leap Forward in China. The immediate causes of this famine lay in Mao Zedong's ill-fated attempt to transform China from an agricultural nation to an industrial power in one huge leap.
During the conference, Liu Shaoqi, the 2nd President of China and Vice Chairman of the Communist Party, delivered an important speech that formally attributed 30% of the famine to natural disasters and 70% to man-made mistakes, which were mainly the radical economic policies of the Great Leap Forward since 1958. [2] [4] [6]