The Great Chinese Famine reveals how an authoritarian state, driven by ideology and falsified data, inflicted more damage on ...

The economic fallout from Mao’s reign was disastrous. Two in three peasants had lower incomes in 1978 than during the 1950s. After the failure of the Great Leap Forward, peasants in an increasing ...

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The gimlet-eyed money-changers on Hong Kong’s Connaught Road and along the nearby Macao waterfront traditionally buy—at carefully reckoned prices—even the most dubious currencies. But last week they ...

Broiling sun beat down on Hankow, China last week. It was nearly 100°. On the roofs of their rickety houses, Chinese hoisted scraps of cloth for shade and gazed glumly at muddy water, five to 15 feet ...