That was the year Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic ... who chronicled the famine in his book "Tombstone," ...

When the Financial Times reported that China is set to announce its first population decline since the famine that accompanied Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, Chinese authorities rushed to ...

famine, and massacres under his regime. “Chairman” Mao Zedong founded the People’s Republic of China and led the country from 1949 until his death in 1976. During that time, tens of millions ...

Among them a Hunan peasant's son, Mao ZeDong.' PRESENTER ... PRESENTER:'In the late 1920s, China was ravaged by flood, famine and armed conflict. 'Peasants were selling their children, 'dying ...

the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution and the reforms by Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Did the Great Famine cost more than 15 million lives? How does the Cultural Revolution continue to shape ...