Investigation
The Great Leap Forward and Great Famine
Six articles and case files reconstruct decision, implementation, numerical disputes, and institutional legacy of The Great Leap Forward and Great Famine.
Articles
6- The Great Leap and Great Famine: Policy, Procurement, and DeathIntegrating central policy, communes, procurement, local violence, demography, and accountability.
- Great Leap Decision Timeline: From Catch-Up Targets to Economic ReadjustmentReconstructing meetings, campaigns, procurement, and adjustment from 1957 to 1962.
- People's Communes, Grain Procurement, and Information FailureExplaining how inflated output became a subsistence crisis through procurement and collectivization.
- Why Famine Severity Varied across Provinces and CountiesComparing procurement, local leadership, violence, ecology, and mobility.
- Great Famine Mortality: Statistical Perimeters, Ranges, and UncertaintyComparing censuses, vital rates, registration gaps, and local estimates.
- Responsibility, Silence, and Family Memory after the Great FamineAnalyzing cadre accountability, policy adjustment, public narrative, and survivor expression.
Cases
2- The Xinyang Famine: Procurement, Violence, and Later InvestigationAn event-timeline and evidence-status reconstruction of The Xinyang Famine: Procurement, Violence, and Later Investigation.
- Communal Canteens and Procurement: How Household Exit Options DisappearedAn event-timeline and evidence-status reconstruction of Communal Canteens and Procurement: How Household Exit Options Disappeared.