Place
Xinyang
Place in Henan province, central China.
Connections 2
involved in
- Great Chinese Famine epicentre, on Yang Jisheng's account as Johnson reports it According to Yang Jisheng Scholarship & press 1
location of
- Xinyang incident Scholarship & press 2
Proof 2 sources
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China: Worse Than You Ever Imagined (review of Tombstone and Mao's Great Famine), The New York Review of Books (text on ChinaFile), 22 Nov 2012.
Scholarship & press
Its epicenter was Xinyang County, where one in eight people died from the famine.
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A Grim Chronicle Of China's Great Famine, NPR, 10 Nov 2012.
Scholarship & press
At the epicenter of the famine, Xinyang in Henan, the post office confiscated more than a thousand letters sent begging for help.
Those who tried to leave the area were sent to labor camp.
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