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

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    Name; area Deaths 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.

  3. Chinese famine of 1920–1921 - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese famine of 1920–1921 affected the Chinese provinces of Zhili, Shandong, Hunan, and Shanxi. [1] The famine, caused by drought, [2] was worsened by the lack of central authority in the power vacuum of the Warlord Era. [3] An estimated 30 million people were directly affected by the famine, which resulted in the deaths of half a ...

  4. Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia

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    Yao, the Chair of Economics at the Business School of Middlesex University, concluded that 18 million people died due to the famine. [60] 15 Chinese Academy of Sciences: 1989 A research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences concluded that at least 15 million people died of malnutrition. [44] 15.4 Daniel Houser, Barbara Sands, and Erte Xiao 2009

  5. List of famines in China - Wikipedia

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    Victims of a famine forced to sell their children from The Famine in China (1878) Global famines history. This is a List of famines in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were no fewer than 1,828 recorded famines in China, or once nearly every year in one province or another. The famines ...

  6. List of earthquakes in China - Wikipedia

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    This is a List of earthquakes in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. Earthquakes in the loess plateau where residents lived in yaodong caves tended to have big casualties, including the 1303 Hongdong and 1920 Haiyuan earthquakes .

  7. Population history of China - Wikipedia

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    The period from 1850 to 1873 saw, as a result of the Taiping Rebellion, drought, and famine, the population of China drop by over 30 million people. [30] China's Qing Dynasty bureaucracy, which devoted extensive attention to minimizing famines, is credited with averting a series of famines following El Niño-Southern Oscillation-linked droughts ...

  8. Death rates in the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    The United States saw 192.9 people per 100,000 die from heart disease in 2010 followed by cancer with 185.9 people per 100,000. An estimated 70 to 120 million people died from famine in the 20th century, of whom over half died in China. Malnutrition and hunger was also a leading cause of the global infant mortality and child mortality.

  9. 1920 in China - Wikipedia

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    April 18 – Wang Zigan, papercutting artist (died 2000) May 3 – Xu Liangying, physicist (died 2013) August 20 – Jiang Zhuyun, revolutionary martyr (died 1949) [1] September 30 – Eileen Chang, writer (died 1995) [2] November 24 – Chao Kuang Piu, industrialist and philanthropist (died 2021) [3]