↑ "45 million died in Mao's Great Leap Forward, Hong Kong historian says in new book". 2018-12-06. เก็บ จากแหล่งเดิมเมื่อ 2016-10-23. สืบค้นเมื่อ 2016-12-02. At least 45 million people died unnecessary deaths during China's Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1962, including 2.5 million tortured or summarily killed, according to a new book by a Hong Kong scholar. Mao's Great Famine traces the story of how Mao Zedong's drive for absurd targets for farm and industrial production and the reluctance of anyone to challenge him created the conditions for the countryside to be emptied of grain and millions of farmers left to starve.
↑ Smil, Vaclav (1999-12-18). "China's great famine: 40 years later". BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.). 319 (7225): 1619–1621. doi:10.1136/bmj.319.7225.1619. PMC1127087. PMID10600969. (...) the world's largest famine: between the spring of 1959 and the end of 1961 some 30 million Chinese starved to death and about the same number of births were lost or postponed. The famine had overwhelmingly ideological causes, rating alongside the two world wars as a prime example of what Richard Rhodes labelled public manmade death, perhaps the most overlooked cause of 20th century mortality. (...) Yet it has still not undertaken an open, critical examination of this unprecedented tragedy. (...) The origins of the famine can be traced to Mao Zedong's decision, supported by the leadership of China's communist party, to launch the Great Leap Forward.
