China’s latest blockbuster film, to be released nationwide on Thursday, focuses on the hypersensitive topic of famine – but not the mass starvation that Mao Zedong presided over, which remains strictly taboo.
Back to 1942 tells of a largely forgotten disaster that left three million dead, seven years before Mao’s Communists took over and almost two decades before his Great Leap Forward led to the deaths of tens of millions. Reported by S.China Morning Post 45 minutes ago.
Back to 1942 tells of a largely forgotten disaster that left three million dead, seven years before Mao’s Communists took over and almost two decades before his Great Leap Forward led to the deaths of tens of millions. Reported by S.China Morning Post 45 minutes ago.