Comments on: Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962

By: Film on China’s ’42 Famine a Microcosm of Beijing’s Censoring Power | Tony Johnson

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:17:09 +0000

[...] way: the famine of 1942 killed approximately 3 million people. But from 1958-1962 approximately 36 million Chinese died, “mostly due to starvation but also government instigated torture and murder of those who [...]

By: Film on China’s ’42 Famine a Microcosm of Beijing’s Censoring Power |

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:31:13 +0000

[...] the famine of 1942 killed approximately 3 million people. But from 1958-1962 approximately 36 million Chinese died, “mostly due to starvation but also government instigated torture and murder of those who [...]

By: t_co

t_co — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:42:57 +0000

@FOARP

ROFL nice

By: FOARP

FOARP — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:35:42 +0000

3) Take a healthy percentage of everything

4) ????????

5) Profit!

By: t_co

t_co — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:31:12 +0000

Seems like Xi has absorbed the twin lessons of both the GLF and Japanese wartime atrocities.

1) Rebalance Chinese economic policy
2) Lever that strength into making sure no enemy, near or far, can ever threaten China’s maritime flank

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:08:18 +0000

SKC, obviously he’s not.

By: S.K. Cheung

S.K. Cheung — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:23:05 +0000

Dude, talk about a pathetic false dichotomy. Remembering GLF doesn’t mean you have to forget other stuff…or are you capable of only one thing at a time?

By: Cookie Monster

Cookie Monster — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:36:24 +0000

NEVER FORGET THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD!!!

The Second Sino-Japanese War? That’s ancient history, you silly Chinese should stop being angry at Great Japan.

By: John Logan

John Logan — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:09:48 +0000

I think the ‘L’ in ‘The Clock’ is a silent one.

By: S.K. Cheung

S.K. Cheung — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:22:25 +0000

To #3,
how very lame to simply re-post a previous comment. Once again, completely typical of you people. Pathetic.

Here’s the logic for you: yes, historically, many people have starved to death. The point with the GLF is that those people did not need to starve and death, and would not have starved to death, BUT FOR Mao’s GLF policies. So Mao isn’t being villified because people starved to death; he’s being villified because those people starved to death as a result of his idiotic policies, without which many of those people would have survived. Time to engage your brain.

The person who is fasting and gets hit by a car would have survived BUT FOR being run over by a car. So he was killed by the car, not starvation. Seriously dude, do you have anything between your ears?