Mao Zedong: Genocide In China

Have you ever considered what Mao Zedong, the man responsible for a mass genocide, has done for the Chinese people over the course his reign. Looking pasts his mistakes it can be seen that Mao has benefited the Chinese population in numerous ways during the Great Leap Forward; however, this truth is often distorted by the oppositions who emphasize his wrongdoings and look past his contributions to society. By increasing economic stability in China and initiating an industrial era, the Great Leap Forward was effective in making China an industrial power and should not be labeled as a catastrophe. By increasing economic stability and fixing societal equality, Mao Zedong was effectively able to introduce a prosperous industrial era with set

Many sources provide inaccurate and distorted accounts of the Chinese record keeping. Editor Liu, Henry visited China and meet with Peng Zenian who explained that 1953 census was flawed in that the population grew from 450 million to 600 million over a relatively short period of time. Thus the editor was able to conclude that the death toll figures in the 1960’s of between 17 million and 29 million is erroneous as there was never any certainty about the 600 million Chinese population, and therefore some of these death may not have existed in the first place. Many sources fail to interpret the flawed census and thus relay incorrect information that holds no merit over the true life expectancy or death toll figure during the Great Leap Forward. Many dubious sources often claim an estimated death toll upwards of 15 million Chinese people during 1960-61, however this claim is entirely incorrect. As explained in Mao’s famine debunked, a population chart released for 1960 and 61 show the birth and death rate of the Chinese population where the death rate exceeds the birth by 3 million. This means that the sources that claim a death toll of upwards of 15 million as said by Banister, Dikotter and Bekker, the the actual death toll was far

These views include citing mass killings of upwards of 30 million, and China’s failure to recover from the famine, all of which are incorrect. In an effort to defame the Great Leap Forward movement, many historians argue that the Great Leap Forward was responsible for taking the lives of 20-30 million; however, Dr. Ping-ti Ho, a Chinese expert of demography cites the numerous flaws in the census of 1959-1960 and concludes that the reported 20-30 million people killed never truly existed. This claim is supported by the census and proves that the estimated death toll is far from the truth. In fact, the death toll amounts to a total of 1-2 million casualties roughly, far from what many acclaimed historians claim. In addition, many detractors adduce that the Chinese economy never recovered from the famine during the Great Leap Forward, and consequently led to bloody revolutions. However, once again this claim is tainted with erroneous information as there was never a struggle to recuperate and the revolution that took place was not violent, but quite the opposite. The Chinese economy was indeed distraught after the famine during the Great Leap Forward movement, however the Chinese government was quick to rebuild their fragmented economy into a prosperous one as early as 1970, and were