China has continuously played down the causes and effects of the Great Famine, which is still officially known as the "Three ...

The famine of 1950 crept inexorably across China’s traditional “hunger belt,” some 200,000 square miles of fertile flatland that stretches from the Yangtze River to the Great Wall.

and along the hillside are monuments to both the Chinese and Japanese experience in San Francisco. The Great Famine Memorial Plaza will be larger and more dramatic than either of those ...