The Great Chinese Famine reveals how an authoritarian state, driven by ideology and falsified data, inflicted more damage on its own people than many wars ever could.

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In 1958, sparrows became a target across China. The order formed part of what was called the Four Pests Campaign. At the time ...

In late 1959, Chinese officials in the provinces began to investigate wild rumors that people were eating one another. Most of the officials must have already known that Mao Zedong’s call for a “Great ...

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese journalist says he has been blocked from traveling to accept a Harvard University prize for a 2008 book chronicling the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-1961. Harvard's Nieman ...

Mao Zedong is the greatest mass murderer in human history. Historians estimate his total number of innocent deaths as between 60-70 million from his accession to power in 1949 until his death in 1976.

BEIJING - A Chinese journalist says he has been blocked from traveling to accept a Harvard University prize for a 2008 book chronicling the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-1961. Harvard’s Nieman Fellows ...