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from the end of the Qing dynasty up through the Japanese invasion in the 1930s

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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 墓碑英文版 秦晖 a point to use personalizedThe much anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine An estimated thirty six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster." As a journalist with privileged access to official and