Telling the Truth: China's Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally

This book discusseswhat is often called the "Great Leap Famine", which occurred in China during the years from 1959 to 1961. Scholarly consensus suggests that 30 million Chinese perished. Yang Songlin's book provides an evidence-based, systematic and substantial rebuff, concludingthata much smaller number of deathscan be verified. This book is of interest to scholars of China and Chinese development and politics, economists, and demographers.