States and Wars & Rethinking China under Mao (Q&A)
States and Wars & Rethinking China under Mao (Q&A) Speaker: Debin Ma (Professor of Economic History, Faculty of History and Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford) Klaus Mühlhahn (President and Director, Chair of Modern Chinese Studies, Zeppelin University)
Klaus Mühlhahn – Rethinking China Under Mao
Speaker: Klaus Mühlhahn (President and Director, Chair of Modern Chinese Studies, Zeppelin University)
Great Leap Forward Bragging Picture Collection
The Great Leap Forward (1958–1962) was a Chinese campaign led by Mao Zedong to rapidly industrialize and collectivize agriculture. It aimed to transform China into a socialist powerhouse but resulted in widespread economic failure and a devastating famine, causing 15–45 million deaths. The policy was later abandoned and is considered one of the most catastrophic social experiments in history. During the Great Leap […]