Brian Carnell examines the failed Maoist policies that led the China into one of the world's worst famines.

Article looks at the failures of Mao's Great Leap Forward campaign and provides details of the related famine the policy caused.

NIcholas Eberstadt reviews a book by Jasper Becker entitled "Hungry Ghosts, Mao's Secret Famine."

Arnold R. Issacs reviews Jasper Becker's book "Mao's Secret Famine" which provides an overview of the failed campaign and subsequent famine.

IIASA fact sheet lists and comments upon the many policy failures that caused China's Great Famine during the Great Leap Forward.