The Geography of the Great Leap Famine

摘要: This article presents a detailed map of the impact Great Leap famine, based on comparison age cohorts recorded in 2000 population census. The is interpreted with reference to three historical features economic geography early Communist China: national grain procurement and distribution system, established support industrialization drive First Five-Year Plan; logic administrative macroregions, which led emergence designated “grain surplus” deficit” areas; efforts logistics experts maximize amount transported along China’s limited modern transport infrastructure. It suggested that radicalization local party leaders, often considered be key cause spatial variation famine severity, was strongly conditioned by factors geography.