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An Analysis on Policy Factors

In: Telling the Truth: China’s Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally

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  • Songlin Yang

    (Henan Provincial Development Research Center)

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This chapter examines the “human factors” of the famine and argues that it was a policy failure. The author argues that the famine can to certain extent, be called a “man-made catastrophe” partly because compulsory government purchase has deprived rural population of access to fair food distribution and because what are called the ultra-leftist or adventurous experiments were taken to extremes at grassroots level in some localities when grain harvest was poor. However, while famine casualties were heavy in some places like Guangshan county in the Henan province, such tragedies did not happen in its neighbouring counties like Luoshan and Xin.

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  • Songlin Yang, 2021. "An Analysis on Policy Factors," Springer Books, in: Telling the Truth: China’s Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally, chapter 0, pages 213-242, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-1661-7_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1661-7_13
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