Many people know about the Great Depression, or the Syrian refugee crisis, but not as many people know about the Great Chinese Famine, another tragic event in history. The famine started with Chairman ...

Yang Jisheng, trans. from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (656p) ISBN 978-0-374-27793-2 One of the 20th century’s worst catastrophes is a monument to Maoist ...

In late 1959, Chinese officials in the provinces began to investigate wild rumors that people were eating one another. Most of the officials must have already known that Mao Zedong’s call for a “Great ...

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Beijing says the “Century of Humiliation” ended in 1949 — yet Mao’s Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution brought new ...

When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, ...