But it all began with a tragedy. In late 1957, Mao Zedong proclaimed the “Great Leap Forward” as a shortcut to the supposed workers’ paradise. According to Mao, China would be able to overtake the UK ...

Northern China showed the fastest response, with famine events tending to peak in the same year as an eruption, suggesting agricultural systems there may have been particularly sensitive to sudden ...

Broiling sun beat down on Hankow, China last week. It was nearly 100°. On the roofs of their rickety houses, Chinese hoisted scraps of cloth for shade and gazed glumly at muddy water, five to 15 feet ...

SHIZIGANG, China (Reuters) - Poor Chinese farmers facing forced resettlement for their nation's latest vast hydro project bear a wrenching past, none more so than the survivors of an exodus to the ...

Back in the U. S. from a tour of Chinese famine areas, Grover Clark, prominent in the U. S. colony for more than a decade, former editor of the Peking Leader reported last week that in the past year 5 ...

SHANGHAI, March 19 (Reuters) - A record-breaking rally in Chinese sovereign debt is hitting a fever pitch in another sign China's financial system is low on confidence and overflowing with cash and ...