MAO RECONSIDERED Starving Chinese Child, 1946, Life Magazine Whose Famine? In 1910…a series of bad harvests in Hunan led to outbreaks of famine and some desperate Hunanese formed a group under the slogan ‘Eat Rice Without Charge’ and seized stores of rice from the wealthier farmers. Among the shipments they seized was one that Mao’s […]
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Why is China not considered a democracy in the West? China is not considered a democracy in the West? Does China have government of the people, by the people, for the people? Or government of the oligarchs by the oligarchs for the the oligarchs? So why is China not Considered a democracy in the West?
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Prior to Deng Xiaoping’s Reform and Opening, China’s Gini coefficient was the lowest in history and, despite a global embargo that excluded it even from the United Nations, its economy was growing twice as fast as America’s. By 1989, over three decades after China ventured down the path of capitalist marketization, the bleak reality of
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Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution There were two Reigns of Terror if we would but remember and consider them: the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other
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On Famine and Measuring Famine Deaths Utsa Patnaik Probably nobody starved to death during China’s Great Famine (‘Three Difficult Years) of 1959-1961. Thanks to long experience of feeding millions of men on the march during the war, the PRC was able to provide some food to everyone every day during the drought and flooding that
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Question: Which is better, Chinese or American media? By Qi Chen. How do the Chinese people know for sure the facts they receive from their government are not distorted? Answer: Personally, the biggest difference between the Chinese state media and the western private media and the one I like the most is the following: Chinese state media
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