August 26, 2025

Mao’s Great Leap Aftermath: Not Quite as We’ve Been Told

Part One of Mao’s Great Leap concluded with the words of economic historian Maurice Meisner, “Indeed, of all the industrial projects China would launch in the next fifteen years, two-thirds were founded during the Great Leap”. But a looming natural catastrophe would overshadow its achievements.   After the growing season in 1960, when villages reported

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