CATEGORY
Oral History
INSTITUTION
Duke University
URL
https://repository.duke.edu/dc/memoryproject
DESCRIPTION
This oral history collection has 739 interviews of survivors of the Great Famine that devastated rural China between 1958 and 1961. Officially known in China as the "Three Years of Natural Disasters" or "The Difficult Three-Year Period," the Great Famine caused the death of between 20 and 43 million people. More recently the project has also covered the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1960, the Land Reform and the Collectivization of 1949-1953, the Four Cleanups Movement in 1964, and the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976.