Many people know about the Great Depression, or the Syrian refugee crisis, but not as many people know about the Great Chinese Famine, another tragic event in history. The famine started with Chairman ...

The famine, which began in the late 1950s, resulted in the deaths of millions of Chinese. For Yang Jisheng, now 72, the famine hit home while he was away.

For 10 years, journalist Yang Jinsheng secretly collected official evidence about the terrible famine in China a half-century ago. In his chilling book Tombstone — which is banned in his ...

The famine, which began in the late 1950s, resulted in the deaths of millions of Chinese. For Yang Jisheng, now 72, the famine hit home while he was away.

A famous documentary maker has inspired more than a hundred young people to take part in an oral history project to collect peasants' stories of the Great Famine in the late 1950s and early 1960s ...

For millennia, China suffered famine after famine. As recently as 1981, as many as 88 percent of the Chinese population was living in extreme poverty; today it is less than 1 per cent.

For some 40 years, official publications in China have called the Great Famine of 1959-1962 “the three years of natural disasters.” ...

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Hit-making Chinese director Feng Xiaogang’s next picture, "Remembering 1942," tells of a deathly famine in central China that claimed three million lives during the war of resistance against ...