Only twelve years into his thirty-year reign, Mao Zedong surpassed Joseph Stalin as historys leading mass murderer, according to evidence released recently by the Peoples Republic of China. Jasper Beckers Hungry Ghosts and Zhengyuan Fus Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics show that Maos Great Leap Forwardthe nadir of 3000 years of autocracywas far worse than most experts had thought.
Autocratic Ghosts and Chinese Hunger
By Bryan Caplan
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