The causes of China's great leap famine, 1959-1961

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-73

  Kung, James Kai Sing ^a   Lin, Justin Yifu ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMINE; FOOD SUPPLY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 1942443892     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380584     Document Type: Article

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