China's great famine: 40 years later

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Summary points

  • The largest famine in human history took place in China during 1959-61

  • Although drought was a contributory factor, this was largely a manmade catastrophe for which Mao Zedong bears the greatest responsibility

  • We will never know the precise number of casualties, but the best demographic reconstructions indicate about 30 million dead

  • Two generations later China is yet to openly examine the causes and consequences of the famine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/