Great Chinese Famine
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The Great Chinese Famine was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China. Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962. It is widely regarded as the deadl
The public dining hall (canteen) of a people's commune. The slogan on the wall reads "Eating is free, strive to produce".
The Eurasian tree sparrow was targeted in the Eliminate Sparrows campaign
Backyard furnaces for producing steel
Premier Zhou Enlai (center front) visited Luokou Yellow River Bridge during the 1958 Yellow River flood.
Four Pests campaign
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The Four Pests campaign was one of the first campaigns of the Great Leap Forward in Maoist China from 1958 to 1962. Authorities targeted four "pests" for elimination: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and spar
Great Chinese Famine
…root growth. While deep plowing can increase yields in some contexts, the policy is generally considered to have hindered yields in China. In the Four Pests campaign, citizens were called upon to destroy mosquitoes, rats, flies, and sparrows. The mass eradication of the sparrows as part of the associated Eliminate…
Chinese poster reading "Exterminate The Four Pests" (Chinese: 除四害; pinyin: Chú Sì Hài), 1958.
"Eradicate pests and diseases and build happiness for ten thousand generations" (1960). A poster used during the Four Pests Campaign, in which sparrows had been replaced by bed bugs.