Great Leap Forward

Frank Dikotter, Mao's Great Famine (2010)

• Frank Dikotter's Homepage
• Asia Society Lecture
• Reviews

Articles about "Mubai" [Tomb] by Yang Jisheng, 1000+ page book in Chinese about the Great Leap:

• The man who exposed Mao’s secret famine (Financial Times)
• Chinese author of book on famine braves risks to inform new generations (New York Times)
• China Digital Times
• The Dissident Within: What a book about China's great famine says about the country's transformation (Slate)

Photographs of the Great Leap by Wang Shilong (798 Photo Gallery, Beijing)

Photo-Essay: The Great Leap Forward, China. 1958, Henri Cartier-Bresson (Museum of Modern Art Exhibition)

"The Great Leap Forward," Wikipedia "

"The Great Chinese Famine," Wikipedia

"The Political Economy of the Great Leap Forward: Permanent Revolution and State Feudal Communes," by Prof. Satya J. Gabriel, Mt. Holyoke College, China Essay Series, Essay 4, September 1998

"Autocratic Ghosts and Chinese Hunger: A Review Essay of Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics by Zhengyuan Fu and Hungry Ghosts by Jasper Becker," by Prof. Bryan Caplan, George Mason University

Chinese Propaganda Posters on the Great Leap Forward (Stefan Landsberger)

Academic papers on the Great Leap Famine, Universities Service Center, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Most are in Chinese; but several are in English)

VIDEO "China Leaps Forward" A 1958 "positive" documentary film about the Leap; from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.