Article discreditng the thesis that Mao "killed millions of people" in The Great Leap

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How about Dali Yang, Professor and Chairman in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, whose peasant parents survived that ordeal?

Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine

Synopsis by William Harms.

No one is sure exactly how many people perished as a result of the spreading hunger. By comparing the number of deaths that could be expected under normal conditions with the number that occurred during the period of the Great Leap famine, scholars have estimated that somewhere between 16.5 million and 40 million people died before the experiment came to an end in 1961, making the Great Leap famine the largest in world history.