Betraying friends. Trading sex for food. Devouring human flesh. All of these occurred during the famine that followed China’s Great Leap Forward (1958–1961), and all of them ...
Jeremy Brown
Jeremy Brown is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. He is author of City Versus Countryside in Mao’s China: Negotiating the Divide (2012) and editor of Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism (2015, with Matthew D. Johnson). 