The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961
Xin Meng,Nancy Qian,Pierre Yared — The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961 (2015)Xin Meng; Nancy Qian; Pierre Yared · 2015 · Article · abstractTheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-1085 · as of 2026-10-30 · about: China under Mao: party-state, planning and mass campaigns (1949–1976) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“During the famine, rural mortality was higher in regions with higher food production per person, a pattern explained by an inflexible procurement system that could not adjust to actual output.”
Context. Lin (1990) attributes the collapse of farm productivity to the removal of the right to withdraw from collectives in 1958; the two mechanisms are complementary rather than exclusive.
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Collectivization and China's Agricultural Crisis in 1959–1961
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