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Svälten i Xinyang : en studie av hungersnöden 1958-1960

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Author

  • Johan Majtorp

Summary, in English

The economic policies of the Great Leap Forward led to a nationwide famine in the end of the 1950s. The starvation was especially severe in Henan due to a lengthy spell of unfavorable weather and leftist political policies. The situation was further aggravated by Henan's province committee's first secretary Wu Zhipu (吴芝圃) insisting on making the most ambitious contribution to the national grain reserve to date. Wu's zeal and utter defiance of common sense in his quest to realize Mao Zedong’s dream of communism turned a grave famine into a complete catastrophe. As cannibalism ravaged the province, the province leaders ordered a complete cover-up. The peasants suffered horrible cruelties at the hands of the cadres in order to hide the truth about the famine and save the faces of the province's leaders. This dark part of China's history was later given the name, "the Xinyang Incident" (信阳事件).

Department/s

Publishing year

2011

Language

Swedish

Document type

Student publication for Bachelor's degree

Topic

  • History and Archaeology
  • Languages and Literatures

Keywords

  • famine
  • history
  • China
  • kannibalism
  • Henan
  • Xinyang
  • stora språnget framåt
  • hungersnöd
  • svält
  • Kina
  • historia
  • GLF
  • great leap forward
  • cannibalism

Supervisor

  • Michael Schoenhals