The Great Chinese Famine reveals how an authoritarian state, driven by ideology and falsified data, inflicted more damage on ...

Thanks to Gerald Farrington’s recent Op-Ed comparing Trump’s policies with Mao’s Great Cultural Revolution. Earlier, Mao led the Great Leap Forward to increase agricultural and industrial outputs to ...

The slogan—a sarcastic play on the "Great Leap Forward," the disastrous economic and social campaign carried out from 1958 to 1962 by Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong—has become a mainstay on ...

Launched with promises of rapid progress, the Great Leap Forward led to one of the deadliest man-made disasters in history. Mao’s vision clashed with reality—and millions paid the price. Trump ...