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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 ...
The Great Chinese Famine (Chinese: ... This page was last edited on 3 January 2025, at 08:14 (UTC).
Peasant rebellion in China inspired by famine; [11] [12] Huang Chao captured capital: China: 927–928: Famine caused by four months of frost [13] [14] Byzantine Empire: 942–944 Famine in the Yellow River Basin caused by severe drought and locust plagues. During the first month 5387 families fled, then approximately 10% of the remaining ...
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 ...
From 1333 to 1337 a famine in the north killed 6 million Chinese. The four famines of 1810, 1811, 1846, and 1849 cost perhaps 45 million lives. [28] [29] The period from 1850 to 1873 saw, as a result of the Taiping Rebellion, drought, and famine, the population of China drop by over 30 million people. [30]
The Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879 (Chinese: δΈζε₯θ) was marked by drought-induced crop failures and subsequent widespread starvation.Between 9.5 and 13 million people in China died [1] mostly in Shanxi province (5.5 million dead), but also in Zhili (now Hebei, 2.5 million dead), Henan (1 million) and Shandong (0.5 million). [2]
Chinese famine of 1942–1943; C. China International Famine Relief Commission; Chinese famine of 1920–1921; G. ... This page was last edited on 1 June 2022, ...