Big Hungry China
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China is a big country. There is no point in denying that fact. It is staggering that one country can contain more than 1/6th (roughly over a billion people) of the world population. It is, therefore, obvious that hunger has been, is, and will always been an imminent and pressing issue in that vast land.
Communist China was a land of both extreme poverty and extreme wealth. The latter, of course, being a very diminutive digit. The communist government of China under Mao was on the platform of economic equality for all Chinese citizens. It is usually overlooked that this standard of living was dismally low and the entire country was living in a state of equal, yet horrific poverty.
It is therefore no shock that an extreme famine was imminent in the 20th century. Between the years of 1955-1965, China experienced the worst famine ever recorded in human history...