On February 15th and 16th, Laogai Research Foundation hosted an international conference on China’s Great Famine in Washington, DC. From 1959 to 1961, the Chinese people suffered history’s largest famine, which killed an estimated 40 million people. LRF’s conference, “The World’s Greatest Famine: Witnessing, Surviving, Remembering”, brought together academics and authors from around the world [...]
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Scholars and Survivors Discuss China’s Great Famine at Laogai Research Foundation Conference
Posted: February 28, 2012 in Events, Laogai News0
International Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961
Posted: February 13, 2012 in EventsWednesday-Thursday, February 15-16, 2012 The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Great Chinese Famine, recorded by Beijing as lasting from 1958 to 1961, but actually extending from 1958 to 1962. The death of at least 40 million Chinese were not caused by bad weather or foreign plots, but by Mao’s unfeasible [...]
February 1st was the opening day of the 2012 Taipei International Book Exhibition at the World Trade Center in Taiwan. Laogai Research Foundation is selling its full collection of Chinese language publications at the exhibition, including the two newest, Qincheng Prison by LRF Executive Director Harry Wu and If It Is for Freedom, by currently [...]
