Mao's Great Famine Clip: Mao's Great Famine Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning. Michael Meyer talked about his ...

"Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962" (Walker & Co., 448 pages, $30). The villagers, suspicious, reported the man to local officials, who found a ...

The Great Famine happened so long ago, at such a remove from major cities, that it has fallen victim to the near-total historical amnesia within China, reduced to a few lines about droughts and ...