The Causes of China’s Great Leap Famine, 1959–1961*

By James Kai Sing Kung, J. Lin. Economic development and cultural change, 2003

142 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Soil Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. D. Yang
2. Michael Vogt
3. Kenneth J. Singleton

In Political Science and International Relations

1. D. Yang

In Soil Science

1. Wei Li
2. D. Yang

Citations in the corpus

• The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China's Great Leap Famine (2010, unknown): “Moreover, the varying severity followed closely the rate of state-procured grain intended to fuel industrialization (Kung and Lin 2003).2 Given that James Kai-sing Kung is Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong…”
• The Great Leap Forward: Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster (2005, background): “4 See Yang (1996), Chang and Wen (1997), Lin and Yang (2000), Kung and Lin (2003), and surveys of the literature on excess mortality by Johnson (1998), Lin and Yang (1998), and Riskin (1998).”
• The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961 (2015, unknown): “The implementation of these policies is thought to be a contributing factor to both the production drop (e.g. Li and Yang, 2005) and the subsequent mortality rates (e.g. Kung and Lin, 2003) during the famine.”