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The Great Chinese Famine ... Mao's Secret Famine, wrote that most estimates of the famine death toll range from 30 to 60 million. [32] [33] 43 Frank Dikötter ...
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, Shaanxi. [9 ...
The Great Chinese Famine [151] [152] [153] ... List of natural disasters by death toll; Live Aid; Medieval demography; Population decline; Potato famine; Starvation;
If approximately 23 million people out of a total population of 650 million people died during the Great Chinese Famine, the percentage would be 3.5%. [4] Hence, the famine during the Great Leap Forward had the highest absolute death toll, though not the highest relative (percentage) one.
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62, is a 2010 book by professor and historian Frank Dikötter about the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1962 in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1893–1976). It was based on four years of research in recently opened Chinese provincial, county, and ...
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, [17] underscoring the high human cost of the ecological mismanagement inherent in the "Four Pests" campaign.
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
Violence in the Great Chinese Famine: 1959–1961 Nationwide 2.5 million [50] [51] Killings occurred during the Great Chinese Famine. [52] [53] According to Frank Dikötter, at least 2.5 million (2–3 million) people were beaten or tortured to death, which accounted for 6–8% of the total deaths in the famine. [51] [53] [54] Socialist ...