1942: The Great Famine in Henan

Author: Song Zhixin
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: "Time" magazine reporter Ba Xiude sent an urgent dispatch on China's famine from Chongqing via telegram last week. A 20,000-square-mile area in northern Henan Province is starving. Men and women are eating tree bark and grass, and children with swollen bellies are being sold for grain...