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How Mao Zedong’s Four Policies Starved Tens of Millions: A Survivor’s Account
Decades after the Great Famine of 1959 to 1961 killed an estimated 36 million people, most Chinese under...
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...