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  1. en.wikipedia.org

    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 varied in severity.
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    Peasant rebellion in China inspired by famine; [11] [12] Huang Chao captured capital: China: 927-928: Famine caused by four months of frost [13] [14] Byzantine Empire: 942-944 Famine in the Yellow River Basin caused by severe drought and locust plagues. During the first month 5387 families fled, then approximately 10% of the remaining ...
  4. factsanddetails.com

    The 1942-1943 famine mainly in Henan in the Second Sino-Japanese War killed between 700,000 and 7-1 million people. There was also hunger and starvation under Mao during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. The two greatest famines in the 20th century were in China in the 1950s and 1960s and the Ukraine in the 1930s.
  5. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    As an essentially social catastrophe, the famine showed clear marks of omission, commission, and provision. These three attributes recur in all modern manmade famines. 5 The greatest omission was the failure of China's rulers to acknowledge the famine and promptly to secure foreign food aid. Study of famines shows how easily they can be ended ...
  6. alphahistory.com

    The Great Chinese Famine (1958-62) was a catastrophic event that led to the starvation of many millions in the People's Republic of China. Chinese Revolution. Search. ... After hearing reports of famine in China, the International Red Cross offered food aid; this was refused by Beijing, which depicted the crisis as a Western fairy tale. As its ...
  7. historicmysteries.com

    The Chinese famines that occurred in the year 1907 and 1959 are considered crises of the 20th century in China. As per the estimation made by Bill Kte'pi, Author of Chinese Famine (1907), more than 10% of the entire Northern Jiangsu and some parts of Central China population died due to this famine. He also added to that by putting up a death figure of over 25 million.
  8. china.usc.edu

    Famine, Frank Dikotter estimates that the toll reached at least 45 million. Tombstone meticulously demonstrates that the famine was not only vast, but manmade; and not only manmade but political, born of totalitarianism. Mao Zedong had vowed to build a communist paradise in China through sheer revolutionary zeal, collectivising farmland and
  9. wikiwand.com

    Responding to famines Chinese officials engaged in famine relief, 19th-century engraving. In China famines have been an ongoing problem for thousands of years. From the Shang dynasty (16th-11th century BC) until the founding of modern China, chroniclers have regularly described recurring disasters. There have always been times and places where rains have failed, especially in the northwest ...

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