Seven questions about the Chinese famine of 1959–1961

Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine

“…Coale and Banister, 1994;Lin and Yang, 2000;Wei and Yang, 2005). Riskin (1998) however points out that the reliability of the mortality statistics published in the Chinese Yearbook for the famine period cannot be corroborated since there is little information about how mortality was calculated.…”

Making Famine History

“…However, all estimates are very sensitive to assumed noncrisis vital rates (Carl Riskin 1998). The aggregate crude death rate for 1950-69 is shown in figure 1 (data from B. R. Mitchell 1995, pp.…”

“…XLV (March 2007) 33 According to Maddison (2006) Kueh 1984Kueh , 1995Peng 1987;Justin Yifu Lin 1990;Riskin 1998;Yao 1999;Wei Li and Dennis Tao Yang 2000;Cai and Feng 2005;Li and Yang 2005;Houser, Sands, and Xiao 2005). Footprints of its severity may be found in the lower average height and higher incidence of adult schizophrenia in the generation born just before or during it (Gørgens, Meng and Vaithianathan 2005;St.…”

Great Leap, Great Famine: A Review Essay*

“…411-16). after a survey of three well-known estimates by foreign scholarsbut overlooking ashton et al (1984), Peng (1987Peng ( ), luo (1988, and the useful review by Riskin (1998) …”