According to historian Frank Dikotter, who examined hundreds of documents across China from 2005-2009. Dikotter is author of Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962, which I haven’t read yet. But some of the descriptions of the famine echo those that Robert Conquest relayed in The Harvest of Sorrow, his book … Continue reading Current Death Estimate for the Great Leap Forward: 45 Million