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Welcome to Stuffy Mist in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com.

Hello and welcome to the five-kastime Tracy V Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.

Today we are starting on a little mini-series about the People's Republic of China

under the leadership of Chairman Mao Zedong, and over the next few weeks,

we're going to talk about three different but kind of interconnected events from this period.

One is the Great Leap Forward, and that's what we're talking about today.

The next one is the Great Fanon, and we will end with a discussion of the Cultural Revolution.

So to be clear, this is a just enormous chunk of Chinese history.

It spans decades, and on top of that, China is an enormous country that is not remotely monolithic.

There are very major cultural distinctions among its provinces and the people who live there.

There are a lot of people who were involved in some way, who we won't specifically mention,

and there are lots of other events that are kind of connected in some way, but not as closely.

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