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China has continuously played down the causes and effects of the Great Famine, which is still officially known as the "Three Years of Difficult Period" or "Three Years of Natural Disasters." ...

OBJECTIVE This study examines changes in sex ratio at birth before, during, and after China’s 1958-1961 famine, to see whether they provide any support for the adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis ...

When the climate became arid after 14 CE, famine and instances of cannibalism increased. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

The UN says the funds are necessary because the impact of the 22-month war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) - that has already displaced a fifth of its population a ...

President of China Chiang Kai-shek cabled urgently, last week, to the China Famine Relief Fund, 205 East 42nd St., New York City. “Funds must be raised and forwarded immediately,” cabled he ...