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Good afternoon, good evening everyone.

Las La Montgomery here with another China History Podcast episode.

In the first two CHP episodes, we've looked at topics concerning ancient China. If you're someone pushing 60 or mow, today's topic took place in your lifetime.

This time we're looking at one of the more painful and disastrous moments in modern Chinese history.

The great leap forward, or D'Aue-Chin as it's called in Mandarin, was a catastrophic case of central planning gone awry. As I'll show you in this episode.

This was all Chairman Mao using the full extent of his prestige, his power and political forcefulness

to single-handedly wrestle control away from the more conservative central planners who had led the economy since the country was founded 10 years earlier.

You see, Mao had this idea that if you were able to harness the energy of the massive Chinese peasant population

and mobilize them with a single-minded purpose, you couldn't help but rapidly speed up economic progress.

This mega disaster came as a direct result of Mao's policies

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