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If excessive eating had not taken place, one scholar argued, "the worst of the Great Leap Famine could still have been avoided in mid-1959". [78] However, dire hunger did not set in to places like Da Fo village until 1960, [ 79 ] and the public dining hall participation rate was found not to be a meaningful cause of famine in Anhui and Jiangxi ...
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.
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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 ...
Some notable actors include: Han Shi, the first actor ever to have portrayed Mao, in a 1978 drama Dielianhua and later again in a 1980 film Cross the Dadu River; [332] Gu Yue, who had portrayed Mao 84 times on screen throughout his 27-year career and had won the Best Actor title at the Hundred Flowers Awards in 1990 and 1993; [333] [334] Liu Ye ...
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
A Chinese documentary filmmaker has been sentenced to over three years in prison for producing a documentary on China’s crackdown on nationwide protests against the Covid lockdown in 2023 ...
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