Reflecting on Mao’s Famine and America’s Grain Embargo
In 1910…a series of bad harvests in Hunan led to outbreaks of famine. Some desperate Hunanese united under the slogan, ‘Eat Rice Without Charge,’ seizing stores of rice from wealthier farmers. Among the shipments they seized was one that Mao’s father was sending to the county seat of Xiangtan. Mao later recalled the ambiguity that […]
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