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Yao, the Chair of Economics at the Business School of Middlesex University, concluded that 18 million people died due to the famine. [60] 15 Chinese Academy of Sciences: 1989 A research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences concluded that at least 15 million people died of malnutrition. [44] 15.4 Daniel Houser, Barbara Sands, and Erte Xiao 2009
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.
0.5 million [17] Chinese famine of 1928–30: 1928–1930 Northern China Drought, wartime constraints, and inefficiency of relief [18] 6 to 10 million [19] Sichuan famine of 1936-37 1936-1937 Sichuan, Henan and Gansu Drought and civil war. 5 million in Sichuan, [20] [21] up to 50 million displaced as 'famine refugees' 1942–1943 famine: 1942 ...
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 ...
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 ]
August 23 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy. October Unknown date — Sichan Radio Manufacturing, as predecessor of home appliance and visual electronic brand Changhong was founded.
Yang takes Cao's, Wang Weizhi's, and Jin Hui's estimates ranging from 32.5 to 35 million excess deaths for the period 1959–1961, adds his own estimates for 1958 (0.42 million) and 1962 (2.23 million) "based on official figures reported by the provinces" to get 35 to 37 million, and chooses 36 million as a number that "approaches the reality ...
Conspiracy 58 (Swedish: Konspiration 58 or KSP58) is a Swedish mockumentary from 2002, produced by Sveriges Television, the Swedish public broadcaster.The film examines the fictional KSP58 movement, that claims that the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden did not really take place, but was faked and exists only as forged television and radio coverage in a conspiracy between American and Swedish ...