The Great Leap Forward

19 59 and 19 61 were hard years in china. These peasants working the fields on an empty stomach were unsung heroes, in a case, of people who died so that others might live. The great leap forward and the immediate aftermath sowed the seeds of what would, in 19 66, be known as the great proletarian cultural revolution. If you care to follow up on that, i encourage you to go listen to the c hp eight part series on the cultural revolution, episodes 83 to 90.