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Great Leap into Famine

Cormac Ó Gráda's review of Dikötter's Mao's Great Famine, a University College Dublin working paper.

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What it disputes

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 Jan 2011
Rather than engage with the competing assumptions behind these numbers, Dikötter selects Cao Shuji’s estimate of 32.5 million and then adds fifty per cent to it on the basis of discrepancies between archival reports and gazetteer data, thereby generating a minimum total of 45 million excess deaths.1

Each side is quoted in its own words. Whether a finding holds is not decided here.

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Great Leap into Famine (UCD Centre for Economic Research working paper WP11/03), University College Dublin, Jan 2011. Scholarship & press Archived copy
Rather than engage with the competing assumptions behind these numbers, Dikötter selects Cao Shuji’s estimate of 32.5 million and then adds fifty per cent to it on the basis of discrepancies between archival reports and gazetteer data, thereby generating a minimum total of 45 million excess deaths.
Great Leap into Famine
Cormac Ó Gráda, University College Dublin

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