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Mao’s vision, China’s tragedy - The Great Leap Forward
In a push to reshape China overnight, Mao launched the Great Leap Forward—a campaign that brought industrial ambition and unimaginable suffering.
IN 1958, UNDER the rule of Mao Zedong, China began the Great Leap Forward, a four-year attempt to transform the country from an agrarian society into a modern industrialised one. It was a disaster: ...
Historians have known for some time that the Great Leap Forward resulted in one of the world’s worst famines. Demographers have used official census figures to estimate that some 20 to 30 million ...
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