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A Chinese Famine Ignored
By Arthur Waldron
China's relative opening to the world in the late 1970s has provided scholars with something that many never imagined possible: the opportunity to compare facts that are known today to the assessments the scholars had made of that country when it was still tightly closed. Not surprisingly, some scholars got a great deal right. Others, were very, very wrong.
One of the best examples of this is the handling of the grim and stomach-turning story of how 40 million Chinese perished in the famines that resulted from Mao Zedong's disastrous attempt to make the Chinese economy perform ...