http://nationalinterest.org/feature/avoiding-war-china-revisited-14769
这篇文章后面的读者评论中看到这样的叙述:
“In 1981 (25 years after the event) Judith Banister at the US Bureau of the Census proposed 30 millions killed in the Great Leap Forward (GLF) based on her “massive death toll” hypothesis, this figure is the mother of all subsequent numbers when the westerns write about the GLF; Frank Dikotter quoted 45 millions murdered in the GLF to win the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; recently Jung Chang and Jon Halliday said 70 millions killed in the GLF in their book “Mao: the Unknown Story.” All of them claimed their number based on secret sources in china. The latest number is 100 millions murdered in the GLF in some western current affairs analysis sites.”
或许评论中提到的 Judith Banister 就是三千万的始作俑者?
搜索 Judith Banister 找到下面结果:
https://www.google.com.au/#q=judith+banister+china%E2%80%99s+changing+population
https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/China_s_Changing_Population.html?id=1_yrbXvyv0YC&redir_esc=y