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  2. Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia

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    Yang, Xinhua News Agency senior journalist and author of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962, concluded there were 36 million deaths due to starvation, while another 40 million others failed to be born, so that "China's total population loss during the Great Famine then comes to 76 million."

  3. Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia

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    If an estimate of 30 million deaths is accepted, the failure of the Great Leap Forward caused the deadliest famine in the history of China, and it also caused the deadliest famine in human history. [ 72 ] [ 73 ] This extremely high loss of human lives was partially caused by China's large population .

  4. List of disasters in China by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Causes 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 ...

  5. Four Pests campaign - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of famines in China - Wikipedia

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    The drought from 1898-1901 led to a fear of famine, which was a leading cause of Boxer Rebellion. The famine eventually came in Spring 1901. [15] 0.2 million in Shanxi, the worst hit province. Chinese famine of 1906–1907: 1906-07 northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu 20 to 25 million [16] Chinese famine of 1920-1921: 1920–1921 Henan, Shandong ...

  7. 40 Facts About Animals That Might Make You Look Like The ...

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    But animal rights campaigners and pet owners have long complained that the noise causes extreme distress to animals. ... exacerbated the Great Chinese Famine, which k*lled between 15 and 45 ...

  8. List of famines - Wikipedia

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    Great Famine killed more than 1,000,000 out of over 8.5 million people inhabiting Ireland. Between 1.5–2 million people were forced to emigrate [ 86 ] Ireland

  9. Natural disasters in China - Wikipedia

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    Chinese believed that natural disasters would foretell the end of a dynasty or the death of a great leader. This concept of cosmic linkage between natural disasters and human conduct was radically rejected at the height of Maoist years when nature was represented as ‘an enemy to be overcome, an adversary to be brought to heel’.