Tag: Great Chinese Famine
How Zhou Enlai Survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution While Every Other CCP Leader Fell
Zhou Enlai served as the Chinese Communist Party's prime minister for 26 years, and to this day many...
The CCP’s Playbook for Burying Disaster: Famine, Flood, and Massacre in China’s Heartland
Henan province sits between the Yellow River and the Huai River, at the geographic and symbolic heart...
Chinese New Year 1961: Famine, Cannibalism, and the Great Leap Forward’s Deadliest Winter
It was Feb. 15, 1961. In the official language of the Chinese Communist Party, it was described as a...
Mao Zedong Secretly Recorded? Soapbox and Button Bugging Allegations and the Cultural Revolution Power
To grasp Mao Zedong’s words and actions, the General Office of the CCP Central Committee tampered with...
Mao’s Great Famine: How the Chinese Communist Party Exported Food While Millions Starved
The Chinese Communist Party has long attributed the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–1961 to "three years...
Zhou Enlai and the Famine Beijing Chose to Ignore
By Yitian In the China of the early 1960s, famine was not a rumor-it was a landscape. Villages emptied...