Introduction: Someone Must Finally Speak the Truth

Songlin Yang
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Songlin Yang: Henan Provincial Development Research Center

Chapter Chapter 1 in Telling the Truth: China’s Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally, 2021, pp 3-6 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter begins with Yang’s response to a New York Times report, which he believes has distorted his views in his published book in Chinese. Yang argues that we cannot dismiss the Chinese’s officially published statistics simply because discrepancies and some inconsistencies can be detected. Regarding the accepted conclusion that there is a “36-million Great Leap Forward (GLF) famine toll”, Yang contends that a closer examination of statistical evidence with historical and socio-economic circumstances may reveal something significantly different. He suggests that the cause of the famine was multi-faceted and therefore needs to be examined more carefully taking wider social and historical factors into consideration.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1661-7_1

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