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Letter: China's hungry years

Published 23 May 2007

From Taras Wolansky

Fred Pearce writes, “The biggest strides against hunger were made in communist China” (21 April, p 47), citing David Montgomery’s Dirt: The erosion of civilizations. He must have omitted to count the years 1958 to 1961, when according to the demographer John Jowett up to 30 million Chinese died in what may have been the worst famine of all time.

Kerhonkson, New York, US

Issue no. 2605 published 26 May 2007

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