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In a push to reshape China overnight, Mao launched the Great Leap Forward—a campaign that brought industrial ambition and unimaginable suffering.
IN 1958, UNDER the rule of Mao Zedong, China began the Great Leap Forward, a four-year attempt to transform the country from an agrarian society into a modern industrialised one. It was a disaster: ...