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70 relations: Amartya Sen, Anhui, Ansley J. Coale, Asia Times, Austria, Bloomsbury Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Cannibalism, China, Chinese famine of 1928–30, Chinese famine of 1942–43, Chinese units of measurement, Collectivism, Deep plowing, East China, Encyclopædia Britannica, Famine, Four Pests Campaign, Frank Dikötter, Gansu, Government of China, Great Leap Forward, Guangming Daily, Guangshan County, Gushi County, Hebei, Henan, Henry Holt and Company, Holodomor, Hong Kong, Huaibin County, Hungry ghost, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Jiangxi, Luoshan County, Lysenkoism, Mainland China, Mao Zedong, Mao's Great Famine, Mass line, Monthly Review, National Academies Press, National Bureau of Statistics of China, Newsweek, Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79, Oxford University Press, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, People's commune, Plough, Pluto Press, ..., Propaganda, Royal Economic Society, Shandong, Sichuan, Socialist Education Movement, South China, The Economic Journal, The New York Times, Three Red Banners, Trofim Lysenko, University of Hawaii Press, Will Lyman, Xinhua News Agency, Xinyang, Yang Jisheng (historian), Yellow River, Zeng Xisheng, 1959 in China, 1961 in China, 70,000 Character Petition. Expand index (20 more) »
Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen, CH, FBA (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Anhui
Anhui is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the eastern region of the country.
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Ansley J. Coale
Ansley Johnson Coale (November 14, 1917 – November 5, 2002), was one of America's foremost demographers.
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Asia Times
Asia Times is a Hong Kong-based Philippine English-language news website covering politics, economics, business and culture "from an Asian perspective specially Philippine".
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Cannibalism
Cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese famine of 1928–30
The Chinese famine of 1928–1930 occurred as widespread drought hit Northwestern and Northern China, most notably in the provinces of Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu.
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Chinese famine of 1942–43
The Chinese famine of 1942–43 occurred mainly in Henan, most particularly within the western part of the province.
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Chinese units of measurement
Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the shìzhì ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese.
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Collectivism
Collectivism is a cultural value that is characterized by emphasis on cohesiveness among individuals and prioritization of the group over self.
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Deep plowing
Deep plowing is a plowing to a depth greater than 50 cm (20 in) as compared to ordinary plowing which rarely exceeds 20 cm (8 in).
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East China
East China or Eastern China is a geographical and a loosely defined cultural region that covers the eastern coastal area of China.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies.
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Four Pests Campaign
The Four Pests Campaign, also known as the Great Sparrow Campaign and the Kill a Sparrow Campaign, was one of the first actions taken in the Great Leap Forward in China from 1958 to 1962.
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Frank Dikötter
Frank Dikötter is a Dutch historian who specialises in modern China.
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Gansu
Gansu (Tibetan: ཀན་སུའུ་ Kan su'u) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northwest of the country.
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Government of China
The central government of the People's Republic of China is divided among several state organs.
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Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1958 to 1962.
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Guangming Daily
The Guangming Daily, Guangming Ribao, or Enlightenment Daily is a national Chinese-language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.
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Guangshan County
Guangshan County (postal: Kwangshan) is a county in the southeast of Henan province, China.
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Gushi County
Gushi is a county of 1,023,857 people directly governed by Henan province, People's Republic of China.
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Hebei
Hebei (postal: Hopeh) is a province of China in the North China region.
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Henan
Henan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country.
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Henry Holt and Company
Henry Holt and Company is an American book publishing company based in New York City.
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Holodomor
The Holodomor (Голодомо́р); (derived from морити голодом, "to kill by starvation"), also known as the Terror-Famine and Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, and—before the widespread use of the term "Holodomor", and sometimes currently—also referred to as the Great Famine, and The Ukrainian Genocide of 1932–33—was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians that was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1932–33, which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.
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Huaibin County
Huaibin County is a county in the southeast of Henan province, China, bordering Anhui province to the northeast.
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Hungry ghost
Hungry ghost is a concept in Chinese Buddhism and Chinese traditional religion representing beings who are driven by intense emotional needs in an animalistic way.
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International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an international research organization located in Laxenburg, near Vienna, in Austria.
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Jiangxi
Jiangxi, formerly spelled as Kiangsi Gan: Kongsi) is a province in the People's Republic of China, located in the southeast of the country. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest. The name "Jiangxi" derives from the circuit administrated under the Tang dynasty in 733, Jiangnanxidao (道, Circuit of Western Jiangnan; Gan: Kongnomsitau). The short name for Jiangxi is 赣 (pinyin: Gàn; Gan: Gōm), for the Gan River which runs across from the south to the north and flows into the Yangtze River. Jiangxi is also alternately called Ganpo Dadi (贛鄱大地) which literally means the "Great Land of Gan and Po".
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Luoshan County
Luoshan County (postal: Loshan) is a county in the southeast of Henan province, China, bordering Hubei province to the south.
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Lysenkoism
Lysenkoism (Lysenkovshchina) was a political campaign against genetics and science-based agriculture conducted by Trofim Lysenko, his followers and Soviet authorities.
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Mainland China
Mainland China, also known as the Chinese mainland, is the geopolitical as well as geographical area under the direct jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
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Mao's Great Famine
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62, is a 2010 book by professor and historian Frank Dikötter about the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1962 in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1893–1976).
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Mass line
The mass line (from the Chinese qunzhong luxian) is the political, organizational and leadership method developed by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the Chinese revolution.
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Monthly Review
The Monthly Review, established in 1949, is an independent socialist magazine published monthly in New York City.
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National Academies Press
The National Academies Press (NAP) was created to publish the reports issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
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National Bureau of Statistics of China
The National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China or NBS is an agency directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China charged with the collection and publication of statistics related to the economy, population and society of the People's Republic of China at the national and local levels.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.
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Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79
The Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79 occurred in the late Qing dynasty in China.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Patricia Buckley Ebrey (born March 7, 1947) is an American historian specializing in cultural and gender issues during the Chinese Song Dynasty.
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People's commune
The people's commune was the highest of three administrative levels in rural areas of the People's Republic of China during the period from 1958 to 1983 when they were replaced by townships.
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Plough
A plough (UK) or plow (US; both) is a tool or farm implement used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting to loosen or turn the soil.
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Pluto Press
Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London.
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Propaganda
Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.
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Royal Economic Society
The Royal Economic Society (RES) is a professional association that promotes the study of economic science in academia, government service, banking, industry, and public affairs.
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Shandong
Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.
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Sichuan
Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
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Socialist Education Movement
The Socialist Education Movement (abbreviated 社教运动 or 社教運動), also known as the Four Cleanups Movement was a movement launched by Mao Zedong in 1963 in the People's Republic of China.
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South China
South China or Southern China is a geographical and cultural region that covers the southernmost part of China.
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The Economic Journal
The Economic Journal (EJ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published on behalf of the Royal Economic Society (RES) by Wiley-Blackwell.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Three Red Banners
Three Red Banners (Chinese: 三面红旗; pinyin: Sānmiàn Hóngqí) was an ideological slogan in the late 1950s which called on the Chinese people to build a socialist state.
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Trofim Lysenko
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко, Трохи́м Дени́сович Лисе́нко; 20 November 1976) was a Soviet agronomist and biologist.
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University of Hawaii Press
The University of Hawaii Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiokinai.
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Will Lyman
William “Will” Lyman (born May 20, 1948) is an American voice-over artist and actor.
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Xinhua News Agency
Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: J. C. Wells: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed., for both British and American English) or New China News Agency is the official state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China.
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Xinyang
Xinyang (postal: Sinyang) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Henan province, People's Republic of China, the southernmost administrative division in the province.
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Yang Jisheng (historian)
Yang Jisheng (born November 1940, chinaelections.org, 7 July 2008 by Verna Yu, International Herald Tribune, 18 December 2008) is a Chinese journalist and author of Tombstone (墓碑; Mubei), a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward.
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Yellow River
The Yellow River or Huang He is the second longest river in Asia, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth longest river system in the world at the estimated length of.
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Zeng Xisheng
Zeng Xisheng (October 11, 1904 – July 15, 1968) was a Chinese politician.
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1959 in China
Events in the year 1959 in China.
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1961 in China
Events in the year 1961 in China.
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70,000 Character Petition
The 70,000 Character Petition (Tibetan: ཡིག་འབྲུ་ཁྲི་བདུན་གྱི་སྙན་ཞུ་, Wylie: Yig 'bru khri bdun gyi snyan zhu) is a document, dated, written by the Tenth Panchen Lama and addressed to the Chinese government, denouncing abusive policies and actions of the People's Republic of China in Tibet.
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China's Great Famine, Chinese famine of 1958-1961, Difficult Three Year Period, Great Famine of China, Sannian ziran zaihai, Sānnián dà jīhuāng, Sānnián zìrán zāihài, The Great Chinese Famine, Three Bitter Years, Three Years of Natural Disaster, Three Years of Natural Disasters, 三年大饑荒, 三年大饥荒, 三年自然災害, 三年自然灾害.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
