Great Famine (China)

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:dam
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Three_Years_of_Great_Chinese_Famine
gptkbp:cause gptkb:Great_Leap_Forward_policies
natural disasters
gptkbp:commemorates rare in official discourse
gptkbp:controversy death toll estimates
causes of famine
government responsibility
gptkbp:country gptkb:China
gptkbp:endDate 1961
gptkbp:followedBy economic reforms in China
gptkbp:governmentResponse gptkb:Chinese_Communist_Party
gptkbp:historicalSignificance largest famine in human history
major event in 20th-century China
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Great Famine (China)
gptkbp:impact major demographic changes
policy changes in China
end of Great Leap Forward
gptkbp:leaderAtTime gptkb:Mao_Zedong
gptkbp:location gptkb:People's_Republic_of_China
gptkbp:mediaCoverage limited during the time
gptkbp:memorial limited in China
gptkbp:notableEvent malnutrition
population decline
widespread starvation
birth rate drop
cannibalism (reported in some areas)
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Great_Leap_Forward
gptkbp:regionMostAffected gptkb:Henan
gptkb:Anhui
gptkb:Shandong
gptkb:Sichuan
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Four_Pests_Campaign
gptkb:Great_Leap_Forward
gptkbp:startDate 1959
gptkbp:subjectOf books
documentaries
historical research
government reports
gptkbp:victim 15 million
rural population
30 million
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Terror-Famine
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6