The deaths of China's population and its contributing factors during 1959-1961
Abstract:Adopting the method of demography and historical georgraphy,andon the basis of the administravie division of county and an imaginary Fu(府),this article reconstructs china's abnormal death roll during the period of 1959-1961,which amounts to 32,500thousand.And we will find a great negative correlationbetween the death roll of 1959-1961and that of 1851-1875.This article believesthat,it is not the average resources and food in different regions,but the folk"historical memory"about famine that leads to this special result.
Key words :the period of 1959-1961the great famine fu(府)the abnormaldeath